Re: [Numpy-discussion] NumPy Governance

2011-12-05 Thread Perry Greenfield
I'm not sure I'm crazy about leaving final decision making for a board. A board may be a good way of carefully considering the issues, and it could make it's own recommendation (with a sufficient majority). But in the end I think one person needs to decide (and that decision may go against

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-15 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: [...] My 2 cents. I think you put too much faith in formal systems. There are plenty of examples of formal governance that fail miserably. In the end it depends on the people and their willingness to continue cooperating. Formal governance

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:18 PM, Joe Harrington wrote: Of course, balancing all of this (and our security blanket) is the possibility of someone splitting the code if they don't like how Continuum runs things. Perry, you've done that yourself to this code's predecessor, so you know the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

2012-02-22 Thread Perry Greenfield
I, like Travis, have my worries about C++. But if those actually doing the work (and particularly the subsequent support) feel it is the best language for implementation, I can live with that. I particularly like the incremental and conservative approach to introducing C++ that was proposed

Re: [Numpy-discussion] timing results (was: record arrays initialization)

2012-05-03 Thread Perry Greenfield
On May 3, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Moroney, Catherine M (388D) wrote: On May 3, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Moroney, Catherine M (388D) wrote: A quick recap of the problem: a 128x512 array of 7-element vectors (element), and a 5000-vector training dataset (targets). For each vector in element, I want

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Created NumPy 1.7.x branch

2012-06-25 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Jun 25, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: Most folks aren't going to transition from MATLAB or IDL. Engineers tend to stick with the tools they learned in school, they aren't interested in the tool itself as long as they can get their job done. And getting the job done is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Created NumPy 1.7.x branch

2012-06-25 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Jun 25, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Perry Greenfield pe...@stsci.edu wrote: It's hard to generalize that much here. There are some areas in what you say is true, particularly if whole industries rely on libraries that have much time

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Do we want scalar casting to behave as it does at the moment?

2013-01-17 Thread Perry Greenfield
I'd like to echo what Chris is saying. It was a big annoyance with Numeric to make it so hard to preserve the array type in ordinary expressions. Perry On Jan 17, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removal of numarray and oldnumeric packages.

2013-09-23 Thread Perry Greenfield
We at STScI have no objection. If we have any residual dependencies, we'll then find out and fix them. Perry On Sep 23, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: Hi All, I have gotten no feedback on the removal of the numarray and oldnumeric packages. Consequently the removal will take

[Numpy-discussion] OT: job opening at STScI

2014-03-20 Thread Perry Greenfield
=*5ECC2DFF67015263 (applications are still being taken despite the date given…) Perry Greenfield ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NumPy in Teaching

2007-03-01 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Feb 28, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Joe Harrington wrote: Hi Steve, I have taught Astronomical Data Analysis twice at Cornell using IDL, and I will be teaching it next Fall at UCF using NumPy. Though I've been active here in the recent past, I'm actually not a regular NumPy user myself yet (I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] when and where to use numpy arrays vs nested lists

2007-03-01 Thread Perry Greenfield
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Simple multi-arg wrapper for dot()

2007-03-24 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Mar 24, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: On 3/24/07, Steven H. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Archibald wrote: P.S. reduce isn't even a numpy thing, it's one of python's much-neglected lispy functions. It looks like reduce(), map(), and filter() are going away for Python

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Fixed scalar coercion model in NumPy

2007-03-26 Thread Perry Greenfield
Great! On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: I've finally made the changes to fix the scalar coercion model problems in NumPy 1.0.1 Now, scalar coercion rules only apply when involved types are of the same basic kind. [...] ___

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Efficient operator overloading

2007-04-18 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Apr 18, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: [...] Let us assume again we have an expression like y = a * b + c * d where a,b,c and d are all arrays or matrices. In this case, the overloaded * and + operators woud not return a temporary array but an unevaluated expression of class

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [AstroPy] Porting IDL Astronomy User's Library to numpy

2007-07-16 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Jul 16, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Yannick Copin wrote: Hi, I'd be interested in some astronomical utilities from the IDL Astronomy User's Library (http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/contents.html) converted to python/numpy. I had a look to idl2python (http://software.pseudogreen.org/i2py/), but

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [AstroPy] Porting IDL Astronomy User's Library to numpy

2007-07-16 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:19 PM, W.T. Bridgman wrote: Perry, I believe some of those documents are getting a bit dated. They still refer to only supporting numarray vs Numeric. Don't those need to be updated to specify numpy? Yes, that's certainly true. Having said that, it's probably going

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] adopting Python Style Guide for classes

2007-10-03 Thread Perry Greenfield
* went through the exercise of changing Int32 to int32 and so forth and we would have to change back again? This cannot be seriously considered. Perry Greenfield On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Jarrod Millman wrote: Hello, For those of you not on the Numpy developer's list, we have been

Re: [Numpy-discussion] indexing bug?

2007-10-03 Thread Perry Greenfield
lots of code (Since it should effect the user API...). These are API changes even if you consider case of the class name just style. Perry Greenfield ___ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] adopting Python Style Guide for classes

2007-10-03 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Oct 3, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Jarrod Millman wrote: 3) Greater time should be provided to accommodate the transition. For example, there should not be deprecation warnings in the first version that this API appears in. The first release of this should not lead to nuisance messages for those

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy 2.0, what else to do?

2010-02-13 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Feb 13, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Charles R Harris wrote: Hi All, Since there has been talk of deprecating the numarray and numeric compatibility Can someone be explicit about what is mean by this deprecation? parts of numpy for the upcoming 2.0 release I thought maybe we could consider

[Numpy-discussion] Developer Job Openings at Space Telescope Science Institute

2010-09-01 Thread Perry Greenfield
We are advertising for two different positions at the Space Telescope Science Institute (located on the Johns Hopkins University Campus in Baltimore, Md). STScI is seeking Senior Systems Software Engineers to develop applications to calibrate and analyze data from the Hubble and the James

Re: [Numpy-discussion] packaging scipy (was Re: Simple financial functions for NumPy)

2008-04-07 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Apr 7, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Robert Kern wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Bruce Southey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think that splitting the NumPy namespace should not happen within a major release series because it would cause too many breakages. Rather it should be

Re: [Numpy-discussion] packaging scipy (was Re: Simple financial functions for NumPy)

2008-04-07 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Apr 7, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Brian Granger wrote: The only problem is that if we keep adding things to numpy that could be in scipy, it will _never_ be clear to users where they can expect to find things. It is already bad enough. How do I explain to a user/student/scientist that ffts and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Record arrays

2008-06-29 Thread Perry Greenfield
Hi Chris, Didn't we remove all dependence on recarray? I could have sworn we did that. Perry On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Christopher Hanley wrote: Travis E. Oliphant wrote: Stéfan van der Walt wrote: Hi all, I am documenting `recarray`, and have a question: Is its use still

Re: [Numpy-discussion] memory usage (Emil Sidky)

2008-10-15 Thread Perry Greenfield
When you slice an array, you keep the original array in memory until the slice is deleted. The slice uses the original array memory and is not a copy. The second example explicitly makes a copy. Perry On Oct 15, 2008, at 2:31 PM, emil wrote: Huang-Wen Chen wrote: Robert Kern wrote:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] (Late) summary of PEP-225 discussion at Scipy

2008-10-22 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Oct 22, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Robert Kern wrote: I would add another position (my own) to the Arguments neutral towards or against the PEP: * I really only care about having just *one* extra operator, one that I can (ab)use for matrix multiplication. It's the only operation that is common

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal for changing the names of inverse trigonometrical/hyperbolic functions

2008-11-25 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Nov 24, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Jarrod Millman wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Francesc Alted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, IMHO, I think it would be better to rename the inverse trigonometric functions from ``arc*`` to ``a*`` prefix. Of course, in order to do that correctly, one

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Advice on converting Numarray C extension?

2009-06-29 Thread Perry Greenfield
Hi Russell, Have you looked at the example in our interactive data analysis tutorial where we compute radial profiles in Python? It's not as fast as C because of the sort, but perhaps that's fast enough for your purposes. I wasn't sure if you had already seen that approach or not. (I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Why NaN?

2009-08-04 Thread Perry Greenfield
Note that NaN generally contaminates sums and other net results (as it should). You should filter them out (there is more than one way to do that). But also note that the IEEE standard for floating point numbers requires NaN != Nan. Thus any attempts to find where NaNs that way is destined

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Governance model request

2015-09-22 Thread Perry Greenfield
I’ve also stayed out of this until now. I’m surprised and disheartened at the amount of suspicion and distrust directed towards Travis. I don’t think anyone has invested as much personal time and resources (e.g., money) towards supporting numpy, and not just in creating it but through efforts