[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: package, ni, and Numeric

[Guido van Rossum]

[Cross-posted to Python-list because of its relevance...]

> After Numeric's brief interlude with packages and ni, I have to
> agree that ni is not ready for prime time.

Agreed.  I'm not sure what to do about it -- it doesn't seem to be as
useful as I once thought.  It is also very complicated, and migrating
it to C (which would be necessary to make it a standard feature) would
be a lot of work.  Perhaps we should just drop it?

> As a workaround, one could change the Numeric directory name to numeric.

No, that won't work on Mac/Windows.  Please use something completely
different, e.g. numpy or num.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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