Relationship between SciPy and NumPy

Question

SciPy appears to provide most (but not all [1]) of NumPy\'s functions in its own namespace. In other words, if there\'s a function named numpy.foo, there\'s alm

Answer 1

From the SciPy Reference Guide:

... all of the Numpy functions have been subsumed into the scipy namespace so that all of those functions are available without additionally importing Numpy.

The intention is for users not to have to know the distinction between the scipy and numpy namespaces, though apparently you've found an exception.