Python In A Nutshell - Numpy essential

[Pete Shinners]

> I used to be one who really wanted Numeric in the Python core.  At this
> point it is not critical to me.  Maybe someday, the multidimensional array
> aspect of Numeric will be distributed with Python.  For now, though what
> is needed instead is an easy to install package (which includes Numeric)
> and provides a competitive numerical enviroment (something like SciPy
> which is coming this summer...)
>
> I'm happy to keep Numeric out of the core as it gives the math-heads more
> control over it's optimization.

well, i would still like to see at least the multidimensional array
part of Numeric included with the python release. the most notable
changes to the package since python2.0 came out has been support for
python2.0 and python2.1 features. the package seems to be settling
down nicely, and is a great value to me (and i'm not even using it
for any scientific purposes, owell)

i just created a fun tutorial on Numeric Python and using it to
do imaging effects here.
http://pygame.seul.org/docs/tut/SurfarrayIntro.html