[Numpy-discussion] Re: API inconsistencies

[Arnd Baecker]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Robert Kern wrote:

> Albert Strasheim wrote:
>
> > What's the current thinking NumPy backwards compatibility with Numeric and
> > ndarray? Is NumPy 1.0 aiming to be compatible, or will some porting effort
> > be considered to be the default setting?
>
> We are trying to be as compatible with Numeric as possible by using the
> convertcode.py script. We hope that that will get people 99% of the way there.

In the wiki there is a page documenting necesssary changes and possible
problems when converting from Numeric
  http://www.scipy.org/Converting_from_Numeric

> numarray modules will take some more effort to convert.

See also
http://www.scipy.org/Converting_from_numarray

Please add anything you observe while converting old code.

Best, Arnd