float / double support in Python?
Anthony Baxter
anthony at interlink.com.au
Thu Feb 6 23:33:41 EST 2003
>>> "Brandon Van Every" wrote
> I hope to - rather I have - introduced a statement of fact about a
> particular problem domain. For instance, DirectX Graphics only takes 4-byte
> floats. I have no interest in using 8-byte doubles for my game code. Aside
> from API compatibility issues, it's piggish in terms of both space and time.
> What I'd like to know:
> - does Numeric Python remedy this deficiency?
> - if not, will this deficiency likely ever be remedied? when?
People have already replied that Numeric does address this.
60 seconds of googling led to:
http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/Doc/node21.html
which is documentation for numarray (which is the new version of Numeric).
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Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au>
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