On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:03:06 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>> Is numpy a general purpose C library that can also be called from any >>> language that can use a C API? Or is it specific to Python? >>> >>> >> No, it's a general purpose FORTRAN library that can also be called from >> any language that can use a generic C, FORTRAN, COBOL, etc API. > > Numpy itself is a collection of Python interfaces to a number of C and > Fortran libraries. You can't generally call numpy from other languages -- > you can't even call numpy from other Python implementations, unless they > support calling C/Fortran. Jython, for example, can't do it without help: > > https://jyni.org/ > > and while PyPy can call numpy, doing so is slow, and there's a custom > fork of numpy specially for PyPy: > > https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy
Right. I was kinda handwaving a bit; numpy itself isn't the thing you'd call from elsewhere, but BLAS libraries in general are intended to be available from many languages. Point is, it's not Python-specific. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
