Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-28 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: kpp9c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Numeric, Numarray, Numpy... some one stick a screwdriver in my forehead and end the madness that Numeric has become. For crying all night! Numpy was Numeric's nickname Given that

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-17 Thread kpp9c
Numeric, Numarray, Numpy... some one stick a screwdriver in my forehead and end the madness that Numeric has become. Brilliant programming an almost essential part of scientific math hacking in python made maddeningly confusing by truly dumb naming scheme. For crying all night! Numpy was

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-17 Thread Terry Reedy
kpp9c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Numeric, Numarray, Numpy... some one stick a screwdriver in my forehead and end the madness that Numeric has become. For crying all night! Numpy was Numeric's nickname Given that NumPy *is* an updated version of Numeric, with

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-15 Thread Tariq
Has anyone been able to successfully install numpy 0.9.4 on python 2.4 under cygwin? I'm getting a few errors, especially while it installs the C source. -- Tariq -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-15 Thread Robert Kern
Tariq wrote: Has anyone been able to successfully install numpy 0.9.4 on python 2.4 under cygwin? I'm getting a few errors, especially while it installs the C source. I don't know of anyone compiling numpy under cygwin, but we will be happy to help you on [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you will give

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-11 Thread linda.s
On 2/10/06, David M. Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: where to download numpy for Python 2.3 in Mac? Thanks! Linda I don't know if anybody's specifically compiled for 2.3; I think most of the developers on mac are using 2.4 :-) But (assuming you have

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-11 Thread Robert Kern
linda.s wrote: where to download numpy for Python 2.3 in Mac? I don't think anybody has a binary package compiled for you. However, if you have gcc installed, numpy should build out-of-box. $ tar zcf ~/downloads/numpy-0.9.4.tar.gz $ cd numpy-0.9.4 $ python setup.py build $ sudo python setup.py

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-10 Thread linda.s
where to download numpy for Python 2.3 in Mac? Thanks! Linda -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-10 Thread David M. Cooke
linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: where to download numpy for Python 2.3 in Mac? Thanks! Linda I don't know if anybody's specifically compiled for 2.3; I think most of the developers on mac are using 2.4 :-) But (assuming you have the developer tools installed) it's really to compile: python

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-10 Thread Alex Martelli
David M. Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: where to download numpy for Python 2.3 in Mac? Thanks! Linda I don't know if anybody's specifically compiled for 2.3; I think most of the developers on mac are using 2.4 :-) However, what comes with MacOSX is

Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread mclaugb
Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead of Numeric? I need a least squares algorithm and a Newton Rhaphson algorithm which is contained in Numeric but all the documentation out there says that Numeric is crap and all code should be using NumPy. Thanks, Bryan

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread linda.s
On 2/6/06, mclaugb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead of Numeric? I need a least squares algorithm and a Newton Rhaphson algorithm which is contained in Numeric but all the documentation out there says that Numeric is crap

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread mclaugb
This page documents the differences. It seems that NumPy is supported and more recent. http://numeric.scipy.org/ linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/6/06, mclaugb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Brendan
the differences. It seems that NumPy is supported and more recent. http://numeric.scipy.org/ linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/6/06, mclaugb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead of Numeric? I need

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread mclaugb
/ linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/6/06, mclaugb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead of Numeric? I need a least squares algorithm and a Newton Rhaphson algorithm which is contained

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
mclaugb wrote: Is Scipy the same thing as ScientificPython? No. They are two separate projects. Scientific Python is still Numeric-only. SciPy 0.3.x is Numeric-based and SciPy 0.4.x is NumPy-based. The developers for NumPy are also the developers for SciPy (for the most part). There is a

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Robert Kern
mclaugb wrote: Is Scipy the same thing as ScientificPython? I am confused if SciPy is just the new version. they appear to be separate things. They are separate projects. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Tim Hochberg
PROTECTED] On 2/6/06, mclaugb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead of Numeric? I need a least squares algorithm and a Newton Rhaphson algorithm which is contained in Numeric but all the documentation out there says that Numeric is crap

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Robert Kern
mclaugb wrote: Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead of Numeric? What Scientific Computing package? I don't know of any package under that name. AFAIK, Konrad Hinsen has not yet ported his ScientificPython package to numpy, yet. scipy 0.4+ is ported

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
Tim Hochberg wrote: mclaugb wrote: No, Scientific Python is a collection of Python modules that are useful for scientific computing written by Konrad Hinsen. I'm not a user, but you can find information here: http://starship.python.net/~hinsen/ScientificPython/ SciPy is, I