[Numpy-discussion] Re: Any Numeric or numarray users on this list? (original) (raw)

Travis Oliphant oliphant.travis at ieee.org
Thu Jun 1 13:21:02 EDT 2006


Berthold Höllmann wrote:

Travis Oliphant <oliphant.travis at ieee.org> writes:

2) Will you transition within the next 6 months? (if you answered No to #1) Unlikely 3) Please, explain your reason(s) for not making the switch. (if you answered No to #2) Lack of resources (Numeric is used in hand coded extensions; are arrays of type PyObject supported in NumPy, they were not in numarray)

Yes, NumPy is actually quite similar to Numeric. Most C-extensions are easily ported simply by replacing

#include Numeric/arrayobject.h with #include numpy/arrayobject.h

(and making sure you get the right location for the headers).

-Travis



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