On 10/31/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So matplotlib depends on Numpy?
Yes.
> > or uses numerical matrices,
>
> I thought we used GSL as a back end, but does it often fall back to
> Numpy then?
We use both numpy and gsl. Numpy is better for certain things.
> > it is very likely to get imported.
>
> It doesn't look like arrays over PyObjects have their own module, or
> we could hook it to that (someone who knows numpy better could maybe
> verify?). We could also patch numpy to turn off inline operations
> whenever an array over generic objects is created. This at least
> should be pretty rare.
That sounds like a very good idea.
> Or we could consider options 3/4 (again, it
> would be nice if someone familiar with the numpy source could comment
> on this).
Maybe you should write directly to Travis Oliphant at BYU who
wrote numpy:
http://www.ee.byu.edu/faculty/oliphant/
-- William
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