[Numpy-discussion] Removal of numarray and oldnumeric packages.

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Peter Cock wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Chuck,
>>>
>>> Could you clarify how we'd know if this is a problem in a large package?
>>> i.e. Is it just Python imports I need to double check, or also C level?
>>>
>>
>> Just Python level unless you are calling python from C. The packages are
>> not normally imported, so you should be able to just grep through. You could
>> also apply the patch and see what happens. That might be the best test.
>
> I take that back. There is a _capi.c and include files for numarray.
>
> Chuck

Thanks - I just ran our test suite against numpy compiled from
that commit: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/3638

We seem to be OK, so I have no objection to removing this.

Peter