I spent all day yesterday trying to figure out how to do file IO in the numarray module-- I -did- (I think) figure it all out, eventually, but it's left me in a rather sour mood.
1. The basic functions and methods: fromfile, fromstring, tofile, and tostring, are buried, in non-alphabetical order, in two chapters that list -all- the functions and methods. This is not user-friendly. The explanations themselves, once I found them, are OK, but a line or two of sample code is always nice. File IO is a real-world necessity in an environment where most people use Matlab and/or IDL. And is it obvious, btw, that reading data should be a function? What if I want to read into a buffer? 2. The memmap documentation is screwed up in a more serious fashion. I was able to deduce relatively rapidly that from numarray.memmap import * was needed for some of the example code. But I didn't immediately have the degree of clairvoyance needed to figure out that import numarray.numarryall as num was required for the critical step of associating an array with a MemmapSlice. Grr. Matt Feinstein -- There is no virtue in believing something that can be proved to be true. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
