How to efficiently read binary files?

[Robert Kern]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2006-04-30, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Grant Edwards wrote:

>>>Perhaps the numarray module?
>>
>>numpy for new code, please.
> 
> So numarray and numpy were both written to replace numeric?

numpy was written to replace both Numeric and numarray. There is a good
explanation in Chapter 1 of _The Guide to NumPy_ included in the sample chapters:

  http://numeric.scipy.org/scipybooksample.pdf

There were a number of features in Numeric that could not be replicated in
numarray, among them the ufunc C API and the speed for small arrays. numpy's
code base is closer to Numeric's but it incorporates nearly all (if not all) of
the features of numarray. The numarray developers fully support the migration to
numpy as the one array package.

-- 
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."
  -- Umberto Eco