Francesc Altet wrote: > Hi, > > I've lately ran into problems in numarray-->numpy conversions which are due > to > a lack of suport of the array procol version 3 on behalf of numarray. For > more info on this issue see: > > http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/256 > > and > > http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/266 > > Question: is the numarray crew going to add this support anytime soon? If > not, > I'd advocate to retain support for version 2 in NumPy at least for sometime > (until numarray gets the support), although I don't know whether this will > complicate things a lot in NumPy. > > I personally don't need this functionality as I've found a workaround for > PyTables (i.e. using the numpy.ndarray factory in order to create the NumPy > object directly from the numarray buffer), but I think this would be very > useful in helping other users (end-users mainly) in the numarray-->NumPy > transition. >
Remember it's only the Python-side of version 2 of the protocol that is not supported. The C-side is still supported. Thus, it's only objects which don't export the C-side of the interface that are affected. In numarray that is the chararray and the recarray. Normal numarray arrays should work fine as the C-side of version 2 is still supported. I think the number of objects supporting the Python side of version 2 of the protocol is small enough that it is not worth the extra hassle (and attribute lookup time) in NumPy to support it. It would be a good thing if numarray supported version 3 of the protocol by adding the __array_interface__ attribute to support the Python side of version 3. -Travis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
