Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-07-10 Thread Robert Kern
Terry Reedy wrote: > "Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I'll voice a heretic thought: me, I'm sticking with good old Numeric >> until the situation with the newer packages settles down. > > Not much of a heresy, I think. The numpy site recommends tha

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-07-10 Thread Terry Reedy
"Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'll voice a heretic thought: me, I'm sticking with good old Numeric > until the situation with the newer packages settles down. Not much of a heresy, I think. The numpy site recommends that *new* users start with nu

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Martelli
Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > so, was Numarray written *before* NumPY, or was it a reimplementation of > NumPy which implies it came *after* NumPy? it seems clear that Numeric is > the old one and i read is not being worked on anymore. so that leaves > Numarray and numpy. which of the

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-13 Thread Robert Kern
Bryan wrote: > hi, > > what is the difference among numeric, numpy and numarray? i'm going to start > using matplotlib soon and i'm not sure which one i should use. There's a reasonably complete telling (and up-to-date!) of the history behind these packages here: http://www.scipy.org/History_o

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-13 Thread Dan Christensen
Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on the python wiki > "NumArray is the current reimplementation of NumPy." > http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumArray > > so, was Numarray written *before* NumPY, or was it a reimplementation of > NumPy > which implies it came *after* NumPy? I clarified that wiki

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-13 Thread John Hunter
> "Bryan" == Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bryan> hi, what is the difference among numeric, numpy and Bryan> numarray? i'm going to start using matplotlib soon and i'm Bryan> not sure which one i should use. numpy is the successor to numarray and Numeric. All three do basic

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-13 Thread Bryan
Ben Sizer wrote: > Bryan wrote: > >> at the end of that page, it says: >> >> "Numarray is another implementation of an arrayobject for Python written >> after >> Numeric and before NumPy. Sponsors of numarray have indicated they will be >> moving to NumPy as soon as is feasible for them so that e

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-13 Thread Ben Sizer
Bryan wrote: > at the end of that page, it says: > > "Numarray is another implementation of an arrayobject for Python written after > Numeric and before NumPy. Sponsors of numarray have indicated they will be > moving to NumPy as soon as is feasible for them so that eventually numarray > will >

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-13 Thread Bryan
Simon Percivall wrote: > Bryan wrote: >> hi, >> >> what is the difference among numeric, numpy and numarray? i'm going to start >> using matplotlib soon and i'm not sure which one i should use. >> >> >> this page says, "Numarray is a re-implementation of an older Python array >> module >> called

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-13 Thread Ben Sizer
Simon Percivall wrote: > Bryan wrote: > > hi, > > > > what is the difference among numeric, numpy and numarray? i'm going to > > start > > using matplotlib soon and i'm not sure which one i should use. > > Look again at numeric.scipy.org, and this time: read the whole page, > especially the secti

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-13 Thread Simon Percivall
Bryan wrote: > hi, > > what is the difference among numeric, numpy and numarray? i'm going to start > using matplotlib soon and i'm not sure which one i should use. > > > this page says, "Numarray is a re-implementation of an older Python array > module > called Numeric" > http://www.stsci.edu/r

numeric/numpy/numarray

2006-06-12 Thread Bryan
hi, what is the difference among numeric, numpy and numarray? i'm going to start using matplotlib soon and i'm not sure which one i should use. this page says, "Numarray is a re-implementation of an older Python array module called Numeric" http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/nu