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

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Tue Jun 13 12:48:24 EDT 2006

konrad.hinsen at laposte.net wrote:

On 10.06.2006, at 01:57, Travis Oliphant wrote:

You may be interested to note that I just added the RNG interface to numpy for back-wards compatibility. It can be accessed and used by re-placing

import RNG with import numpy.random.oldrng as RNG Thanks, that will facilitate the transition. Is this just a compatible interface, or actually the same algorithm as in the original RNG module?

Just the interface. Do you actually want to use the old algorithm, or are you primarily concerned about matching old test results? The old algorithms are not very good, so I really don't want to put them back into numpy. It should be easy to roll out a separate RNG module that simply uses numpy instead of Numeric, though.

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