installing numpy

[Robert Kern]

Christoph Haas wrote:

> Yes, you are right. "python-numeric" refers to NumPy but contains the
> "Numeric" version of it (24-2). It's pretty misleading.

It's an unfortunate consequence of letting software packages acquire nicknames.
C.f.:

  http://www.scipy.net/pipermail/scipy-user/2006-May/007847.html

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
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