Just a quick question (which I believe I have asked before sometime, but I don't recall the outcome ;) -- why is the average() function from MaskedArray not available in numarray? It seems like a very useful function? It seems that looking through the list of functions in MaskedArray might be useful in finding candidates for numarray, in so far as they differ. (Wouldn't be logical if they supported the same functions, more or less?) For example, MaskedArray has the function count(), which counts the number of elements in an array -- exactly what was asked for yesterday, IIRC. (The use may be more obvious for masked arrays, where it counts non-masked elements, but it works on plain arrays too.) If nothing else, perhaps it would be possible to put from MA import count, average in numarray.py? (And similarly for other functions that may be missing in numarray -- I didn't check that closely.) Of course this wouldn't work if MA isn't available... :/ -- Magnus Lie Hetland http://hetland.org