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Final result

Travis has announced that the new name is "numpy"

Round 3

numeriq is out due to trademark issues

Name

+1

0

-1

nagini

teo cf ads

es

scicore

teo pb rs jm fd ads es

cf

dd ab pg jh

numpy

dd pa pb jm jt sr fp teo hg ab mk pg jh

ch

numpyxx

ch

arrakor

pb

es

scikor

teo

es

scinum

sr

tensor

ab

es

naja

teo fp pr ads

es

Round 2

Numerix ( and numerics, numerik, numeriks) are out due to a desire to avoid trademark issues.

Name

+1

0

-1

psipi

teo sr

dd

cf ads jt ch fp

nagini

teo cf ads

muscle

teo

dd

cf jt jm ch

scicore

teo pb rs jm fd

cf

dd

numstar

ads pa sr

dd cf jm ch fp

numerique

mantis

dd cf

jm fp

numpy

dd pa pb jm jt sr fp

ads ch

arrakor

pb

scikor

teo

psipi -- a cute transliteration of "SciPy" into mathy Greek letters (could use symbols in print...)

nagini --- "he who should remain nameless" 's snake in Harry Potter (since we are having such trouble with a name)

muscle --- Multidimensional-arrays Uniting for Scientific and Computational Library Enhancement

Definitions

Votes

proposed name

+1

+0

-0

-1

core Python package name (currently "scipy")

arrmath

jh

BSimons

AndrewStraw dd EdSchofield

ndarray

AndrewStraw

numerix

EdSchofield cf AndrewStraw dd BSimons ArndBaecker

scicore

AndrewStraw

cf dd BSimons

scipy (no change)

cf

AndrewStraw

scipy_core

AndrewStraw

psipi (ψπ)

Module name for basic array functionality (currently in "scipy" namespace)

(same as core package name) (no change)

AndrewStraw

(core package name).ndarray

EdSchofield jh AndrewStraw dd ArndBaecker

(core package name).narray

BSimons

(core package name).numerix

core distribution name (currently "scipy_core")

(same as core package name)

jh AndrewStraw BSimons ArndBaecker

scicore

cf

scipy_core (no change)

"unstable" collection name (currently scipy.sandbox)

scipy.sandbox (no change)

EdSchofield

scikits

ArndBaecker

cf EdSchofield

scisand

jh

cf EdSchofield

full distribution name (currently "scipy")

scipy

jh BSimons ArndBaecker

Comments

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