numerical packages for 1.5.2?

[Mark Fardal]

Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:

> > Given that restriction, what version of Numeric should I be using? 
 
> Why don't you just create a ~you/local/ directory and build py2.1 
> there? It will take a half hour, and the improvements are 
> substantial. You can just tell your friends to have an alias that 
> points to ~you/local/bin/python for them to use it without upgrading 
> anything.

So far I've failed to install the rpm for 2.1 on my own computer.
So has my sysop.  I doubt I'm going to manage installing 2.1 on 
~10 different systems.  And I can't rule out people wanting to run the
code on systems I don't have access to.  

Somebody must have used 1.5.2 at one point--what versions worked then?
 
> Just an idea, since you lose some important features with python<2.0 
> for numeric (such as rich comparisons: a<b for a,b arrays returns a 
> number in old python, but a full array of a[i]<b[i] for the newer 
> versions. This can make writing certain algorithms much easier and 
> they also perform faster as the looping is done in C).

What's wrong with less(a,b), besides uglier syntax?
I find a<b for a,b arrays returns an exception for me with Numeric 15.2.

Mark