Dear crunchers,
Please excuse me for dropping a feature request here as I'm new to the list and don't have the 'feel' of this list yet. Should feature requests be submitted to the bug tracker? Anyways, I installed Numarray on a SuSE/Linux box, following the Numarray PDF manual's directions. Having installed Python packages (like, ehm, Numeric) before, here are a few impressions:
1. When running 'python setup.py' and 'python setup.py --help' I was surprised to see that already source generation took place:
Using EXTRA_COMPILE_ARGS = [] generating new version of Src/_convmodule.c ... generating new version of Src/_ufuncComplex64module.c
Normally, you would expect that at build/install time.
2. Because I'm running two versions of Python (because Zope and a lot of Zope/C products depend on a particular version) the 'development' Python is installed in /usr/local/bin (whereas SuSE's python is in /usr/bin). It probably wouldn't do any harm if the manual would include a hint at the '--prefix' option and mention an alternative Python installation like:
/usr/local/bin/python ./setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local
3. After installation, I usually test the success of a library's import by looking at version info (especially with multiple installations, see [2]). However, numarray does not seem to have version info? :
# python Python 2.2.1 (#1, Jun 25 2002, 20:45:02) [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import sys sys.version
'2.2.1 (#1, Jun 25 2002, 20:45:02) \n[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)]'
sys.version_info
(2, 2, 1, 'final', 0)
import Numeric Numeric.__version__
'21.3'
import numarray numarray.__version__
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'
numarray.version
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'version'
The __doc__ string: 'numarray: The big enchilada numeric module\n\n $Id: numarray.py,v 1.36 2002/06/17 14:00:20 jaytmiller Exp $\n' does not seem to give a hint at the version (i.c. 0.3.4), either.
Well, enough nitpicking for now I guess. Thanks to the Numarray developers for this project, it's much appreciated.
Bye-bye,
Eric