[Numpy-discussion] ANNOUNCE: numarray-0.6

[Todd Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sebastian Haase" <haase at msg.ucsf.edu>
To: "Todd Miller" <jmiller at stsci.edu>
Cc: "numpy-discussion" <numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] ANNOUNCE: numarray-0.6

> Seems to work right away.
> But now I get this:
> >>> r = na.array( [ 2,3,4,5] , type=F.na.Float32 )
> >>> r
> array([ 2.,  3.,  4.,  5.], type=Float32)
> >>> r/10
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NumArray' and 'int'
> >>> r/10.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NumArray' and 'float'
> >>>
>
> Sorry to frighten you... :-(
> I am just experimenting with
> from __future__ import division
>

We have't added support for future division yet.

> Apparently taking that line out again fixes the problem.

Good.

> I am actually not sure what the "proposed policy" is on that future
division
> thing; I just thought I could simplify some explanation to non-Python
people
> if  1/3 is not 0.

I believe we're going to support future division eventually.  I'm not sure
how soon.

> Probably numarray has more important things to worry about - but maybe you
> can put it on the list..

It's on "the list".

> Thanks for your work.

You're welcome.  I hope you find it useful.

> Sebastian
>