[Pythonmac-SIG] Building Numeric Python on Panther (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Dec 3 20:16:58 CET 2004

On Dec 3, 2004, at 14:01, Bill Janssen wrote:

I just downloaded the latest versions of numarray and Numeric Python. numarray builds and installs without problems, but Numeric fails -- it seems to have a bad setup.py file that references missing directories such as "/usr/include/atlas". Is there a set of patches for building this on Panther against the stock 2.3.0 Python release?

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2004-November/012077.html

(Bonus question: the Numeric Python documentation makes it clear that numarray should be used, but not how. Is numarray a substitute for all of Numeric? If not, should numarray be installed before NumPy?)

I think what they mean is that new applications should use numarray. I think the Python API is largely the same, but not everything is the same (the C API, for example).

There are no interdependencies, so installation order isn't going to make a lick of difference.

-bob

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