Re: [Numpy-discussion] Cython BOF

2009-08-15 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
2009/8/14 Dag Sverre Seljebotn da...@student.matnat.uio.no: There's been some discussion earlier about how starting to write bigger parts of the NumPy/SciPy codebase in Cython could potentially lower the barrier of entry. Also, it could address the 2.x to 3.0 C-API transition problems. I'm

[Numpy-discussion] Cython BOF

2009-08-14 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
There's been some discussion earlier about how starting to write bigger parts of the NumPy/SciPy codebase in Cython could potentially lower the barrier of entry. Some topics: * Move towards PEP3118 as the primary scientific data container rather than ndarray? * Cython templates? * Native

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Cython BOF

2009-08-14 Thread Kurt Smith
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotnda...@student.matnat.uio.no wrote: There's been some discussion earlier about how starting to write bigger parts of the NumPy/SciPy codebase in Cython could potentially lower the barrier of entry. Some topics:  * Move towards PEP3118 as

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Cython BOF

2009-08-14 Thread David Warde-Farley
+1. The topics (especially native SIMD) sound fantastic so far. David On 14-Aug-09, at 9:04 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: There's been some discussion earlier about how starting to write bigger parts of the NumPy/SciPy codebase in Cython could potentially lower the barrier of entry.