Remove numpy dependency

Question

Remove numpy dependency

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 2 comments

Can we work on removing the numpy dependency?

For the hack sort (i.e. "da Costa"), can we just do a lowercase, locale-aware sort of all names?

Answer 1 · 2017-07-16T13:33:01.000Z

I am not opposed to removing numpy, but I'd rather not mess with something that works. That said, I think this is at least partially covered by test_authlist.py

I've made a new issue (#19) to track the lowercase hack sort, which is really a database issue, not a mkauthlist issue.

Answer 2 · 2021-09-26T19:39:25.000Z

I don't think we are going to want to remove the numpy dependency. If anything, I'm thinking about moving to use pandas, which would upstream a lot of the details of the csv parsing (which I don't want to maintain) and could lead to much cleaner author affiliation lists using pandas groupby.