Re: [pygame] numeric and surfarray

[enrike@ixi-software.net]

ok. thanks for the info, still i don't understand totally how this works.

but how can i make surfarray work properly?
do i have to install something else?
Looks like the module is not installed, same for sndarray.


On 4 Aug 2003 at 7:43, Pete Shinners wrote:

> enrike@ixi-software.net wrote:
> 
> > i am trying to test surfarray. for this i installed Numeric but i doesn't 
> > look like it works.
> > 
> > I don't know what i did wrong. I am running python 2.2.3 and 
> > numarray-0.6.1
> 
> you are mixing your 'numarray' with 'Numeric'. you'll want to install 
> the Numeric packages to work with pygame. Numeric is the 'old' version 
> of these libraries. numarray is the next generation and has many new 
> features. unfortunately it doesn't quite work with pygame yet.
> 
> it's going to be too hard to support both Numeric and numarray and I 
> have a feeling after the next major pygame release we will start 
> transitioning to the newer numarray.
> 
> the Numeric developers have not released a windows binary of Numeric 
> for python2.3, I have made one available here if needed.
> http://www.pygame.org/ftp/misc/Numeric-23.0.win32-py2.3.exe
> 
> here is a quick guide to the differences between Numeric and numarray
> http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/Userguide.html
> 
> i believe once numarray reaches 1.0 it will have an api freeze and 
> attempt to be included in the python standard lib (woohoo)
>