Ian Bicking wrote: > I'm not sure his summary here is true. You can do efficient operations > over sets of data in Python (actually due to some small tweaks to the > language requested by NumPy/Numeric users back around the time of Python > 2.1). So if you do something like "array * 6", it actually does the > multiplication of items in the array in C. They bend Python's "magic > methods" quite a bit in NumPy, so things like array access, slicing, and > multiplication all avoid actually iterating over the arrays or matrixes > in Python.
1. Python's array handling is the subject of an excellent chapter in "Beautiful Code". :) 2. I may be wrong, but IIRC NumPy is already installed on the XO by default! I forget what depends on it, but I think it's there as a dependency. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
