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I'm in favour of this switch. Corner is a good name ;-)

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, Kyle Barbary [email protected]
wrote:

I've bugged Dan about this before on twitter. :)

There's considerable confusion caused by names in this module: The module
name is triangle, the pypi name is "triangle_plot," the repo name is
"triangle.py," and the main entry point within the package is corner().
Results of the confusion: #39
#39 and #28
#28.

I suggest renaming all of these to simply corner, which is miraculously
unclaimed on PyPI. You get:

• pip install corner
• from corner import corner or import corner; corner.corner(...)

(I'm not so set on the name, just the consistency.)

Two possible downsides:

• There could still be conflicts with other PyPI packages if any of
  them provide a corner module or package (despite not being named
  "corner"). However, I didn't see any obvious candidates for this when
  searching "corner" on PyPI.
• Dan might not want to rename the repo, since it is so popular. I
  would think github redirects would take care of this though?

Any thoughts on the color of this bikeshed?

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from corner.py.

It is no longer available 😉 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/corner; https://github.com/dfm/corner.py

from corner.py.

That was fast :) I suppose there's some reason you created a new repo instead of renaming? I think renaming would keep the forks/stars/watchers.

from corner.py.

Nope: I'm just dumb. Doing that now! I somehow forgot that GitHub does have redirects.

from corner.py.

Nice. My dreams have been fulfilled today.

from corner.py.

Mine too! :-)

Did you rename to corner or corner.py? I'd go for the former myself. Then-
does it make sense to rename the main def as "plot" in order to, you know,
make a cornerplot?

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, Kyle Barbary [email protected]
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Nice. My dreams have been fulfilled today.

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from corner.py.

I guess adding a plot method that just calls corner is the better way to do
this though, to avoid breaking everyone's code even further :-)

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, Phil Marshall [email protected]
wrote:

Mine too! :-)

Did you rename to corner or corner.py? I'd go for the former myself. Then-
does it make sense to rename the main def as "plot" in order to, you know,
make a cornerplot?

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, Kyle Barbary <[email protected]
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Nice. My dreams have been fulfilled today.

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from corner.py.

Well that took some git foo! But everything is properly migrated now. Thanks @kbarbary and @drphilmarshall. I have been wanting to do this!

You now install using:

pip install corner

and run:

import corner
corner.corner(...)

If you install triangle_plot it will continue working as a shim to corner.py but it throws a deprecation warning.

I don't like calling the function plot because I'd rather be able to do

from corner import corner

It would, of course, be even better to enable:

from corner.corner import corner as cornerplot

but who has time for that 😉

from corner.py.

:-)

Thanks a lot Dan, this is great.

I think I'll just munge my data into an array called "plot" and then do

import corner
corner(plot)

;-)

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Dan Foreman-Mackey <
[email protected]> wrote:

Well that took some git foo! But everything is properly migrated now.
Thanks @kbarbary https://github.com/kbarbary and @drphilmarshall
https://github.com/drphilmarshall. I have been wanting to do this!

You now install using:

pip install corner

and run:

import corner
corner.corner(...)

If you install triangle_plot it will continue working as a shim to
corner.py but it throws a deprecation warning.

I don't like calling the function plot because I'd rather be able to do

from corner import corner

It would, of course, be even better to enable:

from corner.corner import corner as cornerplot

but who has time for that [image: 😉]

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from corner.py.