On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:13:45PM +0100, Francesc Altet wrote:
""" If you are new to Numerical Python, please use Numarray. The older module, Numeric, is unsupported. At this writing Numarray is slower for very small arrays but faster for large ones. Numarray contains facilities to help you convert older code to use it. Some parts of the community have not made the switch yet but the Numarray libraries have been carefully named differently so that Numeric and Numarray can coexist in one application. """
Another problem is that Numeric is extremely poorly advertised/marketed. - There is no single keyword for Numeric: it is referred to as "Numerical", "Numeric" and "numpy". Both "Numerical" and "numpy" are also used to refer to numarray. - Numeric does not have a home page of its own. The Sourceforge "Numerical" page lists both numarray and Numeric (which, coincidentally, is referred to as "numpy"). - The #1 & #2 Google results for "numeric python" are the numpy.org page, which is out-of-date, and advertises numarray as being a replacement for Numeric. Plus, what appears to be the main link for Numeric, "Release 22.0" points to a page with both numarray and Numeric releases, numarray first, and Numeric releases named "numpy". Could you try to be more confusing? - None of the top 10 Google links for "numeric python" point to the Sourceforge page. - A "numeric python" search on sourceforge lists 24 projects before the Numerical Python page. Jason