[C++-sig] GSoC 2011 proposal for improved NumPy wrapper ?

[Praveen Kumar]

Hi !
I am Praveen Kumar pursuing Integrated M.Sc in Applied Mathematics at IIT
Roorkee, India. One the very first day when
the list of selected organisations was released, I wanted to work on this
project on improving the NumPy wrapper in Boost.Python.
I even read the discussions on the mailing lists regarding increasing the
limited support of numpy.ndarray. Stefan was talking something
about the need of raw pointers and limited support because  of no support of
multi-dimensional arrays in C++. My knowledge of STL is 3/5
and I am good at python. I have never used smart pointers because I never
felt the need of it. I use version control systems but not subversion.
Since, It is my first time at GSoC, I was a bit hesitant to drop my
willingness to code for this project in the mailing list.



On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jim Bosch <talljimbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/23/2011 07:49 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> As you may have heard, Boost has once again been accepted as a mentoring
>> organization in this year's Google Summer of Code program. One of the
>> potential projects that we have been talking about in the past is about
>> improving the NumPy wrapper in Boost.Python.
>> We talked about different shortcomings with the existing "numeric"
>> module, and why a richer API to access NumPy would be useful.
>>
>> Some code to address these shortcomings already exists, and may be used
>> as a starting point for such Boost.Python improvements.
>>
>> Anyone considering to work on this, please get in touch !
>>
>
> I would definitely like to be involved in this, and I can provide a lot of
> that "existing code".  I'm not sure I can sign up as a full mentor at this
> point - I have a PhD thesis to write this summer that needs to take priority
> - but I'd certainly like to help.
>
> Jim Bosch
>
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