Russell E. Owen wrote: > So I finally bit the bullet and converted most of my code from Numeric > and numarray to numpy.
good for you! I can only help with one: > - Even after reading the book I'm not really clear on why one would use > numpy.float_ instead of numpy.float or float They float and numpy.float are the same, and numpy.float_ is the same as numpy.float64: >>> import numpy >>> float is numpy.float True >>> numpy.float64 is numpy.float64 True >>> float was added to the numpy namespace so that we could write consistent code like: a = array(object, numpy.float32) b = array(object, numpy.float) i.e. have it all in the same namespace. I'm not sure why float_ is an alias for float64, though I'm guessing it's possible that on some platforms they are not the same. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
