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

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
> 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

Apologies for drifting off-topic. I understand the desire to not
require scipy, but how likely is that to change? I've written a BCa
bootstrapper[1] for boxplots, but it needs scipy, so I can't
contribute it back to the community.

[1] - http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~zwp/teach/Stat-Comp/Efron_Bootstrap_CIs.pdf


Cheers,
-paul