On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:18 PM, David J Strozzi <stroz...@llnl.gov> wrote: > Hi, > > [You may want to edit the numpy homepage numpy.scipy.org to tell > people they must subscribe to post, and adding a link to > http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists] > > > Many of you probably know of the interpreter yorick by Dave Munro. As > a Livermoron, I use it all the time.
Never heard of it... what does it do? By the sound of it, yorick is an interpreted language like Python. > There are some built-in > functions there, analogous to but above and beyond numpy's sum() and > diff(), which are quite useful for common operations on gridded data. > Of course one can write their own, but maybe they should be cleanly > canonized? > > For instance: > > x = linspace(0,10,10) > y = sin(x) > > It is common, say when integrating y(x), to take "point-centered" > data and want to zone-center it: > > I = sum(zcen(y)*diff(x)) > > def zcen(x): return 0.5*(x[0:-1]+x[1:]) > > Besides zcen, yorick has builtins for "point centering", "un-zone > centering," etc. Also, due to its slick syntax you can give these > things as array "indexes": > > x(zcen), y(dif), z(:,sum,:) > > > Just some thoughts, > David Strozzi > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
