Mailman 3 November 2006 - NumPy-Discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Need more comments from scientific community on python-dev
by Travis Oliphant Nov. 1, 2006

Nov. 1, 2006

Fernando Perez wrote: >On 10/31/06, Rich Shepard <rshepard(a)appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > >>On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alan Isaac wrote: >> >> >> >>>The easiest access to this discussion for me was >>>http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.comp.python.devel/ I cannot add to this >>>discussion, but I REALLY hope others will help Travis out here. (A few >>>have.) He is fielding a lot of questions, some of which look to me to be >>>from individuals who are ready to have fairly strong opinions without >>>really understanding the "why" of his proposals. >>> >>> >> All this is sufficiently far from my areas of expertise that I cannot >>contribute anything useful. Otherwise, I'd be happy to lend support. >> >> > >I actually worry about the same: I really would like to help, but >after reading the whole discussion, I realized that the low-level >details being asked and discussed are something I don't really know >enough to say anything. And I don't want to sound simply saying 'Hey, >Travis is great, listen to him!' to python-dev, since that (asides >from looking silly) can be somewhat counter-productive. > > >How does that sound, Travis? Is that something you think might help >you, esp. since so many of us are feeling woefully underqualified to >lend a useful hand in the actual discussion on python-dev? > > That would be great. I think a couple of things would also be useful. 1) Some way to indicate to python-dev that I'm actually speaking for more than just myself. So, while I agree that just supporting my PEP (which probably in reality needs work) without understanding it is counter-productive, a voice that says. "We really do need this kind of functionality" is at least one more voice. 2) Examples of sharing memory between two objects. PIL is the classic example and has some merit, but because the internal memory layout of the PIL is 'pointer-to-pointers' instead of 'big-chunk-of-memory' it's not a 1-1 match to NumPy and the array interface only can comunicate information about the "mode." But, I can see other examples. PyMedia, PyGame, PyVideo? CVXOPT, PyVoxel. All of these seem to define their own objects which are basically just interpretations of chunks of memory. At one time, we might have said "these should all be sub-classes of the ndarray". Now, we are thinking more along the lines of "these should all expose an array interface". The array interface is still more bulky then it needs to be (it has to go through the attribute-lookup process which can be slow). It would be much better if the extended buffer protocol were available as a function-pointer on the type object of the type. If you have an application where you've ever wanted NumPy in the core. See if the extended buffer protocol serves your purposes and if you agree, voice your approval for the PEP. In my mind, the data-format PEP does not need to go through if there really is a better way to pass data-format information through the buffer protocol. But, the extended buffer protocol we *do* need. -Travis >Regards, > >f >_______________________________________________ >SciPy-user mailing list >SciPy-user(a)scipy.org >http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-user > >

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installing numpy on Tiger
by Alan Isaac Nov. 1, 2006

Nov. 1, 2006

If other users will not profit from this question, please consider it OT and ignore it. But perhaps it will prove useful to some potential numpy users. I am a long time Windows user who has been happily using the Python and numpy installers. At work I need to use a Mac for a while. I installed Python 2.5 from python.org painlessly, but it looks like I'll have to compile numpy from source. Do I understand that right? I have used interpreted languages for pretty much all my computing needs, so I am hoping someone patient will point me to or lead me through the steps I need to take to successfully install numpy on this platform. Thank you, Alan Isaac ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642

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Nov. 1, 2006

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