Hi all,
I would like to propose some new deprecation to remove functions from scipy.spatialthat appear to be unused / are inferior duplicates of other functions:
distance_matrixdistance_matrix — SciPy v1.18.0.dev Manual
This function is a duplicate of scipy.spatial.distance.cdist. The only possible additional functionality it offers is the following argument
however in my benchmark it had the same memory usage as cdist with worse performance.
Searching on GitHub I cannot find any uses: Code search results · GitHub
minkowski_distance
This function is a duplicate of scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski / scipy.spatial.distance.cdist
Again I could not find any uses: Code search results · GitHub
minkowski_distance_p
Same as minkowski_distance except it doesn’t take the root. You might think this could be useful for performance but it is still slower than manually just taking the root of the result from scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski ENH: spatial.minkowski_distance/minkowski_distance_p: add array api support by j-bowhay · Pull Request #24710 · scipy/scipy · GitHub
tsearch
This is a convenience function for Delaunay.find_simplex however it offers no convenience as still need to have constructed the Delaunay triangulation so you may as well just use Delaunay.find_simplex! Again, does not seem to be used: Code search results · GitHub
Please let me know if there are any objections to deprecating and then removing these functions!
cc. @tylerjereddy as the spatial regular
Regards,
Jake