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Re: [pygame] 3D SHMUP
Ian Mallett wrote:
On 9/16/07, *Lenard Lindstrom* <len-l@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
NumPy is not the same as Numeric. As long as you are using a 32 bit
machine you can compile Numeric for Python 2.5.
I thought so. I've heard things about development on Numeric had
stopped, and was therefore dead?
The whole Numeric/numarray/NumPy screwup makes my brain explode. I keep
getting it all mixed up and I expect I'm not the only one.
I think this is how it goes (I might be wrong on some of this):
They are all, as far as I can see almost the same thing, with slight
changes, the main result of which, is to break stuff.
# numarray has been pretty-much dropped.
# Numeric was the original, which was upgraded to numarray, but then
the old Numeric was re-upgraded to be a better version and released as
Numeric again. There are moves to have this dropped.
# NumPy was (I think) yet another rewrite of Numeric. It upset a lot of
people by having some of the documentation released non-free, but there
is considerable pressure to make this the main version. Nowadays there
is quite a bit of free documentation for NumPy available.
http://www.scipy.org/Documentation
http://www.scipy.org/doc/numpy_api_docs/numpy.html
http://docs.neuroinf.de/api/numpy/
http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Example_List_With_Doc
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/
The main problem is that even if NumPy is used forever more it doesn't
help all the old programs out there that used numeric. This problem will
become less annoying given the passage of time. My solution has been to
install both Numeric and NumPy. For those using Python 2.5 René Dudfield
has made a precompiled version available:
http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/stuff/Numeric-24.2.win32-py2.5.exe
For all else go to the Sourceforge pages:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369
Hope this helps. If I got any of this wrong can someone correct me
please? I'm still pretty confused about the whole thing, and part of my
motivation for writing this was to help straighten it out in my own mind.
Cheers,
- Miriam
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