Re: scipy sandbox going, going, gone....

Jarrod Millman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jarrod Millman <millman <at> berkeley.edu> wrote:
>   
>> In preparation for the 0.7.0 beta release, I am going to remove
>> scipy.sandbox.  We are approaching 8 months since it was decided to
>> remove it.  If you are interested in why the sandbox was created and
>> why it is being removed, please read this:
>> http://jarrodmillman.blogspot.com/2007/12/end-of-scipy-sandbox.html
>>
>> Most of the sandbox code has all ready been moved somewhere else, but
>> there is still some code that remains.  So my plan is to create a
>> branch called sandbox from the trunk on Saturday.  I will then remove
>> the sandbox from the trunk.
>>     
>
>
> The sandbox code has been removed:
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/changeset/4647
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/changeset/4648
>
> I wasn't sure what to do with a few things:
>
> **  A couple of docstrings in scipy/maxentropy/maxentutils.py:
>
> def sparsefeatures(f, x, format='csc_matrix'):
>     """ Returns an Mx1 sparse matrix of non-zero evaluations of the
>     scalar functions f_1,...,f_m in the list f at the point x.
>
>     If format='ll_mat', the PySparse module (or a symlink to it) must be
>     available in the Python site-packages/ directory.  A trimmed-down