Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r3919:98beef48b53c Date: 2011-09-30 12:57 -0300 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/98beef48b53c/
Log: merge default diff --git a/blog/draft/numpy-statups-update.rst b/blog/draft/numpy-statups-update.rst new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/draft/numpy-statups-update.rst @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +NumPy Status Update +------------------- + +Hi everyone, + +It's been a little while since we wrote about NumPy on PyPy, so I wanted to +give everyone an update on what we've been up to, and what's up next for us. + +Some of the things that have happened since last we wrote are: + +* We added ``dtype`` support, meaning you can now create arrays of a bunch of + different types, including bools, ints of a various sizes, and floats. +* More array methods and ufuncs, including things like comparison methods + (``==``, ``>``, etc.) +* Support for more and more argument types, for example you can index by a + tuple now (only works with tuples of length one, since we only have + single-dimension arrays thus far). + +Some of the things we're working on at the moment: + +* More dtypes, including unsigned integers, singe floats, and complex doubles. +* Subscripting arrays by other array as indices, and by bool arrays as masks. + +Some of the things on the near horizon are: + +* Better support for scalar data, for example did you know that + ``numpy.array([True], dtype=bool)[0]`` doesn't return a ``bool`` object? + Instead it returns a ``numpy.bool_``. +* Multi-dimensional array support. + +If you're interested in helping out, we always love more contributors, +Alex, Maciej, Justin, and the whole PyPy team \ No newline at end of file _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
