[Numpy-discussion] problem on testing numpy

2007-08-25 Thread Vivian Tini
Dear All, I have just installed NumPy and I am excited to test it. Since I have no access as root then I installed Numpy in my home directory. The following messages appears as I tried some commands: import numpy Running from numpy source directory from numpy import * a = array([1,2,3])

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Maskedarray implementations

2007-08-25 Thread Travis Oliphant
Pierre GM wrote: All, * Does anyone see any *disadvantages* to this aspect of maskedarray relative to numpy.ma? * What would be the requisites to move maskedarray out of the sandbox ? We hope to be able in the short term to either replace or at least merge the two implementations,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Installation problem NumPy-1.0.3 on Linux x86_64 Python 2.4.2

2007-08-25 Thread Matthieu Brucher
2007/8/21, Vivian Tini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear All, I am trying to install the package NumPy-1.0.3 on Linux x86_64 with Python version 2.4.2 and after using the standard installation command : python setup.py install I received the following error message: error: could not create

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Maskedarray implementations

2007-08-25 Thread John Hunter
On 8/24/07, Travis Oliphant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the direction of this work. For me, the biggest issue is whether or not matplotlib (and other code depending on numpy.ma) works with it. I'm pretty sure this can be handled and so, I'd personally like to see it. mpl already supports

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Maskedarray implementations

2007-08-25 Thread Pierre GM
On Saturday 25 August 2007 12:50:38 Eric Firing wrote: Alexander Michael wrote: Is there any documentation available for your maskedarray? Pierre wrote some notes about maskedarray here: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/MaskedArray starting half-way down the page. Please note

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Maskedarray implementations

2007-08-25 Thread Eric Firing
Pierre GM wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2007 12:50:38 Eric Firing wrote: Alexander Michael wrote: Is there any documentation available for your maskedarray? Pierre wrote some notes about maskedarray here: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/MaskedArray starting half-way down the page.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Maskedarray implementations

2007-08-25 Thread Matt Knox
I think it's reasonably safe to say at this point that most people are in favor of the new maskedarray implementation becoming the default numpy.ma at some point in the future. So the question is, when/how will the migration process be done? - just swap the whole thing as is and hope for the

[Numpy-discussion] Maskedarray implementations : new developer zone wiki page

2007-08-25 Thread Pierre GM
On Saturday 25 August 2007 15:48:00 Eric Firing wrote: I've made a couple of small emergency edits, but a separate page would make things much more visible and less confusing. So here it is: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/MaskedArrayAlternative Please note the section : Optimizing