Numeric Soup

2007-03-27 Thread Erik Johnson
I am just starting to explore doing some scientific type data analysis using Python, and am a little confused by the different incarnations of modules (e.g., try Google("Python numeric"). There is SciPy, NumPy, NumArray, Numeric... I know some of these are related and some are separate,

Re: Numeric Soup

2007-03-27 Thread Robert Kern
Erik Johnson wrote: > I am just starting to explore doing some scientific type data analysis > using Python, and am a little confused by the different incarnations of > modules (e.g., try Google("Python numeric"). > > There is SciPy, NumPy, NumArray, Numeric... I know some of these are >

Re: Numeric Soup

2007-03-27 Thread Ene
On Mar 27, 9:49 am, "Erik Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am just starting to explore doing some scientific type data analysis > using Python, and am a little confused by the different incarnations of > modules (e.g., try Google("Python numeric"). > > There is SciPy, NumPy, NumArray

Re: Numeric Soup

2007-03-27 Thread Robert Kern
Ene wrote: > As it stands Matplotlib does not > support numpy (thus my suggestion to install two of the three - my > choice: numarray + numpy) matplotlib certainly supports numpy. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible

Re: Numeric Soup

2007-03-27 Thread Erik Johnson
"Robert Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.scipy.org/History_of_SciPy > > numpy is the current array package and supercedes Numeric and numarray. scipy > provides a bunch of computational routines (linear algebra, optimization, > statistics, signal proc

Re: Numeric Soup

2007-03-28 Thread Harry George
"Erik Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Robert Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.scipy.org/History_of_SciPy > > > > numpy is the current array package and supercedes Numeric and numarray. > scipy > > provides a bunch of computational routin