Table 2 Summary of SciPy Roadmap items following 1.0 release

From: SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

SciPy subpackage

Summary of change

optimize

A few more high-quality global optimizers

fftpack

Reduce overlap with NumPy equivalent

linalg

Reduce overlap with NumPy equivalent

interpolate

New spline fitting and arithmetic routines

interpolate

New transparent tensor-product splines

interpolate

New non-uniform rational B-splines

interpolate

Mesh refinement and coarsening of B-splines and tensor products

signal

Migrate spline functionality to interpolate

signal

Second order sections update to match capabilities in other routines

linalg

Support a more recent version of LAPACK

ndimage

Clarify usage of the ‘data point’ coordinate model, and add additional wrapping modes

sparse

Incorporate sparse arrays from Sparse package118

sparse.linalg

Add PROPACK wrappers for faster SVD

spatial

Add support for (quaternion) rotation matrices

special

Precision improvements for hypergeometric, parabolic cylinder and spheroidal wave functions