Jim Bosch wrote: > On 03/23/2011 07:49 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote: >> Hello, >> >> As you may have heard, Boost has once again been accepted as a mentoring >> organization in this year's Google Summer of Code program. One of the >> potential projects that we have been talking about in the past is about >> improving the NumPy wrapper in Boost.Python. >> We talked about different shortcomings with the existing "numeric" >> module, and why a richer API to access NumPy would be useful. >> >> Some code to address these shortcomings already exists, and may be used >> as a starting point for such Boost.Python improvements. >> >> Anyone considering to work on this, please get in touch ! > > I would definitely like to be involved in this, and I can provide a lot > of that "existing code". I'm not sure I can sign up as a full mentor at > this point - I have a PhD thesis to write this summer that needs to take > priority - but I'd certainly like to help. > > Jim Bosch
I am very interested in Jim's code, which I've just started using. Previously, I have used pyublas extensively and found it very capable. But Jim's ndarray code adds a lot of functionality. While I appreciate others wanting to get involved, this is a battle that has dragged on for years. I doubt that even a brilliant newcomer can create something even approaching pyublas or ndarray in one summer. I only have 3 concerns regarding ndarray at present: 1) documentation is thin 2) not sure about efficiency of various usage patterns 3) not sure about future support On a side note, I'm wondering if the new iterator in numpy-1.6 will be helpful. _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
