On Feb 15, 11:23 pm, "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 15, 4:40 pm, "Christian Convey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I need to bang out an image processing library (it's schoolwork, so I > > can't just use an existing one). But I see three libraries competing > > for my love: numpy, numarray, and numeric. > > > Can anyone recommend which one I should use? If one is considered the > > officially blessed one going forward, that would be my ideal. > > > Thanks, > > Christian > > Hi, > > yeah numpy is the newest one. It has only one drawback, there is no > comprehensive documentation available that would be free but of course > you could buy one. numpy is very similar to the other two packages but > not identical that means one has always some troulbe finding out how > things work. For example, in numarray you can calculate the > eigenvectors of a matrix with eigenvectors(A), in numpy it is eig(A). > This looks similar, but the difference is that in numarray the > eigenvectors are returned as rows and in numpy as columns. > > If someone knows of a free manual, let me know. > > Frank
Frank, I bought the manual, and I do recommend it, but I find the most useful documentation is in the docstrings, which I view via "pydoc -g" and then view in a browser. Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
