Hi, There does appear to be lots of free documentation for Numpy. http://www.scipy.org/Documentation
Enough for people to be able to use it - without having to buy the ebook. For those who want a full reference, there is the book. I apologise for the misinformation. Cheers, On 5/10/07, René Dudfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here's a binary for windows python2.5: http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/stuff/Numeric-24.2.win32-py2.5.exe I've added a link to this on the download page, so people should be able to find it easier. I'll update the other documentation explaining the whole Numeric/Numpy experience in the future. The plan for Numeric/Numpy is as follows: make a surfarray(and sound) which tries to load the surfarray_numeric module. Failing that it will try to load a surfarray_numpy module(which doesn't exist). Otherwise people can import either one directly. There's a patch from the Numpy author to change pygame around to use numpy instead of numeric. This patch needs some adjustment before applying because: - numpy is not as fast in real life pygames as numeric. - numpy is not fully backwards compatible with numeric. It breaks surfarray examples, and real pygames. - numpy has non-free documentation. Since documentation is considered by me to be part of software - then I consider numpy to be non-free, so I won't go out of my way to support non-free software. I will help with putting it in as an optional- non default import - possibly changing to default in the future. The author of Numpy has submitted a patch, which should be able to be used to easily add support as I have described. There is also support for numpy as surfarray within pygame-ctypes - which may be used with pygame with a few modifications. Supporting numpy is on the todo list, however I'd rather do other things first. If someone wants to do the work required... great - let me know. http://www.pygame.org/wiki/todo Chairs, On 5/10/07, Dave LeCompte (really) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The pygame.surfarray module depends on Numeric, and will fail to load if > Numeric isn't installed. > > The Numeric package isn't maintained any longer, and there are no Win32 > binary versions for Python 2.5. I was able to get the source and install > from there, which is a workaround for the time being. > > What would be necessary to break the dependency on Numeric? > > -Dave LeCompte >
