[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: Another numpy update

[fijal]

Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r4059:8191a7475814
Date: 2012-01-28 14:29 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/8191a7475814/

Log:	Another numpy update

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+Hello.
+
+This is just a quick status update on the NumPy in PyPy project that as of very
+recently became my day job. I probably should thank once again to Getco and
+Nate Lawson who donated $35000 towards this goal and individual contributors
+who donated above $5000.
+
+Recently we (Alex Gaynor, Matti Picus and me) implemented few interesting things
+that a lot of people use:
+
+* more ufuncs
+
+* most ufuncs now accept axis parameter (except all and any)
+
+* fixed string representation of arrays, now it's identical to numpy (uses
+  pretty much the same code)
+
+* ``ndarray.flat`` should be working correctly
+
+* ``ndarray.flatten``, ``ndarray.ravel``, ``ndarray.take``
+
+* indexing arrays by boolean arrays of the same size
+
+* bugfixes
+
+We would also like to introduce the `nightly report`_ of numpy status. This
+is an automated tool that does package introspection. While it gives some
+sort of idea how much of numpy is implemented, it's not by far the authority.
+Your tests should be the authority. It won't report whether functions
+support all kinds of parameters (for example masked arrays and ``out`` parameter
+are completely unsupported) or that functions work **at all**.
+
+We hope to provide you with more frequent updates on the progress and in
+meantime I would like to encourage people to donate towards the step 2, which
+is making it **really** fast.
+
+Cheers,
+fijal & the PyPy tem
+