Make me beautiful (code needs help)

[Mark]

Fernando Perez wrote:

> For this kind of thing, look at Numeric. It has a ton of functions
> ready-made for numerical processing, very convenient slicing syntax
> (better than python lists) and as a bonus it's fast. Explicit loops in
> python over large lists for numerical processing take an eternity and a
> half. That's what Numeric is for.

Fernando,

Thanks for the tip.  Is there a "HOWTO" doc on installing Numeric?  I seem 
to recall looking at it awhile ago and seeing NumPy NumericPy NumPython NP 
(ok, I'm making them up now) ... point is, I got sorely confused as to what 
the current "numerics in python" package was.

Regards,
Mark