Re: [Pysparse-users] ambiguous error using solvers: TypeError: matvec() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

[Dominique O. <dom...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Jonathan Guyer <gu...@ni...> wrote:

>
> On Jun 14, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Dominique Orban wrote:
>
> > As you may know, Pysparse used to be part of Scipy several years ago. For
> some reason, the Scipy folks decided to write their own sparse matrix
> library.
>
> I don't believe that's exactly true. In the course of refactoring their
> already existing sparse code several years ago (around 2005), the scipy
> developers imported Pysparse to see if there were things they could gain
> from Pysparse (Pysparse' LU solver is dramatically faster, for instance). I
> don't know that Pysparse was ultimately used much in that refactoring and I
> think it has subsequently been removed from the scipy codebase.
>
> I seem to recall that Roman indicated to us many years ago that he's not
> interested in merging pysparse into a larger suite like scipy; that he
> prefers individually maintained small packages to large monolithic systems.
>

Ok, thanks for clarifying this.

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Dominique