numeric/numpy/numarray

[Terry Reedy]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at mac.com> wrote in message 
news:1hgwwnm.lhpxrs1gkfp6N%aleax at mac.com...
> I'll voice a heretic thought: me, I'm sticking with good old Numeric
> until the situation with the newer packages settles down.

Not much of a heresy, I think.  The numpy site recommends that *new* users 
start with numpy but I don't remember the numeric/numpy folks recommending 
that happy, experienced numeric users dump it yet.  The current development 
version of numpy is still labelled as a development version (0.9.8, I 
believe) and besides bug fixes, it still made a few tweeks in the user 
interface and C-API from the previous version.  They are aiming to release 
a stable NumPy 1.0 by the end of the summer.  Then maybe they will start 
pushing it, along with a compatible array interface for Python.

Terry Jan Reedy