Re: matrix algebra

2008-09-24 Thread Bas
On Sep 22, 10:02 am, Al Kabaila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are several packages for matrix algebra. I tried Numeric, numpy and > numarray. All three are very good, but each uses different syntax. That argument might have been valid 3 years ago, but as already said by others, Numeric and Num

Re: matrix algebra

2008-09-24 Thread Carl Banks
On Sep 22, 4:02 am, Al Kabaila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Is there any interest in matrix algebra "for the masses" (I mean interest > in a wrapper for a subset of functions of the packages with a unified > simple syntax)? I wouldn't since I do pretty advanced stuff and I'm happy to use numpy

Re: matrix algebra

2008-09-23 Thread alain
On Sep 22, 11:32 am, "Tim Leslie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no need for a wrapper. Both numarray and Numeric have been > deprecated in favour of numpy, so numpy is the only one you need to > use. Numpy should have all the tools you need. If you find something > missing, there's a good c

Re: matrix algebra

2008-09-22 Thread Al Kabaila
Tim Leslie wrote: > There is no need for a wrapper. Both numarray and Numeric have been > deprecated in favour of numpy. Well, some years ago I looked for a matrix package. At that time it looked that numarray was the end of it all - it had a clean syntax, an active developer team. It looked to

Re: matrix algebra

2008-09-22 Thread Michael Palmer
On Sep 22, 4:02 am, Al Kabaila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a very active newsgroup that incudes such giants as Frederik Lundh He looks rather small to me in this picture: http://www.python.org/~guido/confpix/flundh-2.jpg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: matrix algebra

2008-09-22 Thread Tim Leslie
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Al Kabaila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My OS is Linux (openSUSE 10.3) and my interest in retirement is Python > applications to Structural Analysis of Civil Engineering structures, > currently in 2 dimensions only (under GPL). Modern Structural Analysis is