Numarray vs Numpy

Chris Liechti cliechti at gmx.net
Mon Jul 8 14:59:08 EDT 2002


Lou Pecora <pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil> wrote in
news:080720021452508286%pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil: 

> In article <agcg96$5vd$1 at peabody.colorado.edu>, Fernando Pérez
> <fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> numarray is a rewrite of numpy. As such it will address some flaws of
>> numpy's design which have been understood over the last few years of
>> its extensive use in science. But beware that in order to do that,
>> numarray's designers will be forced into breaking compatibility with
>> numpy. So while _most_ numpy code will work with numarray, some
>> critical things will not. 
>> 
> Are these compatible with the Numeric module?

yes, as numpy _IS_ Numeric or vice-versa ....
one is the name of the distribution the other the name of the package when 
you use it.

chris



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