On Monday 25 April 2011 12:59:38 rusi wrote: > On Apr 25, 4:49 am, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 4/22/11 7:32 PM, Algis Kabaila wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 06:57:23 sturlamolden wrote: > > >> On Apr 20, 9:47 am, Algis Kabaila<akaba...@pcug.org.au> > > > > > > wrote: > > >>> Are there any modules for vector algebra (three > > >>> dimensional vectors, vector addition, subtraction, > > >>> multiplication [scalar and vector]. Could you give me > > >>> a reference to such module? > > >> > > >> NumPy > > >> > > >> Or one of these libraries (ctypes or Cython): > > >> > > >> BLAS (Intel MKL, ACML, ACML-GPU, GotoBLAS2, or ATLAS) > > >> Intel VML > > >> ACML-VM > > > > > > Thanks for that. Last time I looked at numpy (for > > > Python3) it was available in source only. I know, real > > > men do compile, but I am an old man... I will compile > > > if it is unavoidable, but in case of numpy it does not > > > seem a simple matter. Am I badly mistaken? > > > > On UNIX machines with compilers and headers properly > > installed, it's really pretty straightforward. > > Mostly (on ubuntu/debian) that means do this [Untested] > $ aptitude build-dep python-numpy > Then you should be ready to build/compile numpy from source
Thank you, Robert and Rusi, I will try it RSN, but first the latest version of ubuntu that should become available this week (including today?!). OldAl. -- Algis http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/StructuralAnalysis.pdf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
