numpy, numarray, or numeric?

Lou Pecora pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil
Sun Feb 18 17:40:21 EST 2007


In article <1171591039.085342.21280 at l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "RickMuller" <rpmuller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Use numpy; it is the "officially blessed one" that you refer to. It
> has all of the advantages of the other two.
> 
> Numeric was the first library, but it had some drawbacks that led some
> people to develop Numarray, which had some additional features.
> Finally, the numpy project was started to unify the two groups by
> providing some of the new features in a code base consistent with the
> old library as well.

I agree completely, having converted all my code from Numeric to NumPy.

Just my 2 cents.

-- Lou Pecora  (my views are my own) REMOVE THIS to email me.



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