Re: [Matplotlib-users] it is possible to use basemap to create regular spaced lat/lon grids?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Matt Funk <mat...@gm...> wrote:

>  Hi Aman,
> thanks for your code. I am testing it right now, but i think this might
> what i need.
> Not sure if you know this: what is the difference between:
> 1) scipy.interpolate.griddata
> 2) matplotlib.mlab.griddata
>
> For 2) you have specify the interpolation method and i think the calling
> convention is different. Is one a wrapper for the other?
>
> thanks
> matt
>
>
No, they are not wrappers.

I don't know the full details, but the idea was that we didn't want to have
SciPy as a dependency, so mlab was used to replicate many of the functions
found in SciPy.  I don't know why the calling conventions are different,
though.

Ben Root