Good for us Feds!  (But I'm sure some people will think it's a waste of money)  Not sure how that impacts our building here, but actually the landscaping is not too bad considering where we are.  I don't know what's native in our front planting.

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Date: 02/22/2012 08:52 AM
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Today's Topics:

  1. Where is arrayobject.h? (Neal Becker)
  2. Re: Where is arrayobject.h? (V. Armando Sol?)
  3. Re: Proposed Roadmap Overview (Gael Varoquaux)
  4. Live coding demonstration (alan@ajackson.org)
  5. Re: Live coding demonstration (Flavio Coelho)
  6. Re: Proposed Roadmap Overview (Neal Becker)
  7. Re: Proposed Roadmap Overview (Perry Greenfield)
  8. Re: Live coding demonstration (Fahredd?n Basegmez)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:26:17 -0500
From: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Where is arrayobject.h?
To: numpy-discussion@scipy.org
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What is the correct way to find the installed location of arrayobject.h?

On fedora, I had been using:
(via scons):

import distutils.sysconfig
PYTHONINC = distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()
PYTHONLIB = distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(1)

NUMPYINC = PYTHONLIB + '/numpy/core/include'

But on ubuntu, this fails.  It seems numpy was installed into
/usr/local/lib/..., while PYTHONLIB expands to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.

Is there a universal method?



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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:31:55 +0100
From: "V. Armando Sol?" <sole@esrf.fr>
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Where is arrayobject.h?
To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion@scipy.org>
Message-ID: <4F43E31B.3000802@esrf.fr>
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On 21/02/2012 19:26, Neal Becker wrote:
> What is the correct way to find the installed location of arrayobject.h?
>
> On fedora, I had been using:
> (via scons):
>
> import distutils.sysconfig
> PYTHONINC = distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()
> PYTHONLIB = distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(1)
>
> NUMPYINC = PYTHONLIB + '/numpy/core/include'
>
> But on ubuntu, this fails.  It seems numpy was installed into
> /usr/local/lib/..., while PYTHONLIB expands to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.
>
> Is there a universal method?
>
>

I use:

import numpy
numpy.get_include()

If that is universal I cannot tell.

Armando




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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:18:53 +0100
From: Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org>
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview
To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion@scipy.org>
Message-ID: <20120221221853.GB13483@phare.normalesup.org>
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 05:44:27AM -0500, David Warde-Farley wrote:
> I think the comments about the developer audience NumPy will attract are important. There may be lots of C++ developers out there, but the intersection of (truly competent in C++) and (likely to involve oneself in NumPy development) may well be quite small.

That's a very valid concern. It is reminiscent of a possible cause to our
lack of contributors to Mayavi: contributing to Mayavi requires knowing
VTK. One of the major benefits of Mayavi is that it makes it is to use
the power of VTK without understanding it well. The intersection of the
people interested in using Mayavi and able to contribute to it is almost
empty.

This is stricking to me, because I know a lot of who know VTK well. Most
of them couldn't care less for Mayavi: they are happy coding directly in
VTK in C++. This is also a reason why I don't code UIs any more: I simply
cannot find the resource to maintain them in proportion with the number
of users that they garner. A sad statement.

Gael


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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:31:27 -0600
From: <alan@ajackson.org>
Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Live coding demonstration
To: numpy-discussion@scipy.org
Message-ID: <20120221203127.3b7d845d@ajackson.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

This is the sort of programming environment I would love to have in
python.


http://flowingdata.com/2012/02/20/live-coding-and-inventing-on-principle/

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:27 -0200
From: Flavio Coelho <fccoelho@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Live coding demonstration
To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion@scipy.org>
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Shouldn't be hard to implement as a set of plugins to an editor.
Hope someone starts such a project.



On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 00:31, <alan@ajackson.org> wrote:

> This is the sort of programming environment I would love to have in
> python.
>
>
>
http://flowingdata.com/2012/02/20/live-coding-and-inventing-on-principle/
>
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> |
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:25:10 -0500
From: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview
To: numpy-discussion@scipy.org
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It's great advice to say

avoid using new

instead rely on scope and classes such as std::vector.

I just want to point out, that sometimes objects must outlive scope.

For those cases, std::shared_ptr can be helpful.



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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:44:27 -0500
From: Perry Greenfield <perry@stsci.edu>
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview
To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion@scipy.org>
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I, like Travis, have my worries about C++. But if those actually doing  
the work (and particularly the subsequent support) feel it is the best  
language for implementation, I can live with that.

I particularly like the incremental and conservative approach to  
introducing C++ that was proposed by Mark. What I would like to stress  
in doing this that all along that process, extensive testing is  
performed (preferably with some build-bot process) to ensure that  
whatever C++ features are being introduced are fully portable and  
don't present intractable distribution issues. Whatever we do, we  
don't want to go far down that road only to find out that there is no  
good solution in that regard with certain platforms.

We are particularly sensitive to this issue since we distribute our  
software, and anything that makes installation of numpy problematic is  
a very serious issue for us. It has to be an easy install on all  
common platforms. That is one thing C allowed, despite all its flaws,  
which is near universal installation advantages over any other  
language available. If the appropriate subset of C++ can achieve that,  
great. But it has to be proved continuously as it is incrementally  
adopted. (I'm not much persuaded by comments like "my experience has  
shown it not to be a problem")

Is there any disagreement with this?

It's less clear to me what to do about more unusual platforms. It  
seems to me that some sort of testing against those that may prove  
important in the future (e.g., gpus?) will be needed, but how to do  
this is not clear to me.

Perry


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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:51:51 -0500
From: Fahredd?n Basegmez <mangabasi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Live coding demonstration
To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion@scipy.org>
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I have been working on an application somehow similar to his approach.
Instead of trying to explain what it is I will let you see it yourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQUW5BvdIkc&list=UUiomLkTUHKpZohYYfj1WsMg&index=7&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjpUmSfo3mY&list=UUiomLkTUHKpZohYYfj1WsMg&index=6&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1pdoLi6UPc&list=UUiomLkTUHKpZohYYfj1WsMg&index=9&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y1nWiIoKk8&list=UUiomLkTUHKpZohYYfj1WsMg&index=3&feature=plcp

Fahri



On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Flavio Coelho <fccoelho@gmail.com> wrote:

> Shouldn't be hard to implement as a set of plugins to an editor.
> Hope someone starts such a project.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 00:31, <alan@ajackson.org> wrote:
>
>> This is the sort of programming environment I would love to have in
>> python.
>>
>>
>>
http://flowingdata.com/2012/02/20/live-coding-and-inventing-on-principle/
>>
>> --
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> | Alan K. Jackson            | To see a World in a Grain of Sand      |
>> | alan@ajackson.org          | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,         |
>> |
www.ajackson.org           | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand |
>> | Houston, Texas             | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake       |
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
>
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> Brasil
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