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[pygame] Help making surfarray work



I have been having trouble getting the surfarray module to work. I am using Python 2.5.1 and Pygame 1.7.1 (both installed from binaries) on Windows XP. It seems that surfarray uses the Numeric module, which is no longer being actively supported. There is no binary for Numeric, and it would be some trouble to compile it from sources seeing as I have not bothered compiling anything else from source. I have seen the patch for making surfarray use Numpy instead of Numeric, but again, being a nube, I don't know how to use the patch to make surfarray work, and I can't seem to find any documentation on it. So I am wondering:

a) What do I use to patch surfarray?
b) Does the patch work on already installed versions of surfarray, or will I have to run it on the source code and then compile it from scratch?
c) If I am forced to compile pygame to patch surfarray, will MSCV++ Express 2005 work, or do I need another compiler?
d) If I am forced to compile pygame, do I need to compile python and everything else from scratch as well?

Thanks in advance!

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Elliott Slaughter
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