[Numpy-discussion] Numeric vs numarray?

Timo Korvola tkorvola at welho.com
Wed Feb 9 22:38:08 EST 2005


Andrew McNamara <andrewm at object-craft.com.au> writes:
> I know this is a loaded question, but what does numarray offer that
> Numeric does not (as they stand today)? A cleaner implementation?

NA_OutputArray and NA_IoArray.  Very convenient for wrapping C
libraries.  NA_InputArray is more or less equivalent to
PyArray_ContiguousFromObject but as far as I know Numeric has nothing
equivalent to the other two.

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	Timo Korvola		<URL:http://www.iki.fi/tkorvola>




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