[Numpy-discussion] Setting scalar values from strings, what to do?

2008-04-13 Thread Charles R Harris
Reposting the comment I left on ticket #736 because I think we need to decide how conversion of strings to scalars should work. There is more to this problem: {{{ In [5]: int8('1') -- - ValueError

[Numpy-discussion] diagonalising a 2d array

2008-04-13 Thread wilson
hi what exactly does diagonalising a matrix mean? how do you do it on a symmetric numpy array? W ___ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] diagonalising a 2d array

2008-04-13 Thread Pauli Virtanen
wilson kirjoitti: hi what exactly does diagonalising a matrix mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_diagonalization how do you do it on a symmetric numpy array? Compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors using numpy.linalg.eigh. -- Pauli Virtanen

Re: [Numpy-discussion] F2PY future

2008-04-13 Thread David Cournapeau
Gael Varoquaux wrote: To add my view to the comments of Fernando and Brian, I am _very_ happy with the workflow, and a bit disappointed by the usability of launchpad. Hopefully it will get better. Well, it got better. At first, it was really unusable, I could not even find how to fill bugs

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it

2008-04-13 Thread David Cournapeau
Jarrod Millman wrote: Hello, David Cournapeau has prepared a new win32 installer, which is aimed at solving the recurring problem of non working atlas on different sets of CPU. This installer simply checks which cpu you have, and installs the appropriate numpy accordingly (without atlas if

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it

2008-04-13 Thread Bill Baxter
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:07 AM, David Cournapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jarrod Millman wrote: Hello, David Cournapeau has prepared a new win32 installer, which is aimed at solving the recurring problem of non working atlas on different sets of CPU. This installer simply checks

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it

2008-04-13 Thread Damian Eads
David Cournapeau wrote: Jarrod Millman wrote: Hello, David Cournapeau has prepared a new win32 installer, which is aimed at solving the recurring problem of non working atlas on different sets of CPU. This installer simply checks which cpu you have, and installs the appropriate numpy

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it

2008-04-13 Thread David Cournapeau
Damian Eads wrote: Hi David, I'd be happy to help you test the installer (and let you know what my processor supports). Is it just the installer you want tested or do you also want us to try some computation with numpy? Doing numpy.test() should be fine. The actual numpy installers are

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it

2008-04-13 Thread David Cournapeau
Bill Baxter wrote: What's the installer supposed to do? It is supposed to install numpy :) The fact that it is not clear is not good, obviously. Suggestions to make it more obvious are welcomed. It appears to have decided I have SSE3 extracted an sse3 exe to somewhere, and then quit without

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it

2008-04-13 Thread David Cournapeau
Bill Baxter wrote: What's the installer supposed to do? It appears to have decided I have SSE3 extracted an sse3 exe to somewhere, and then quit without doing anything else. I can't seem to find where it put the numpy-1.0.5-sse3.exe it extracted, either. The details, say Execute:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it

2008-04-13 Thread David Cournapeau
Bill Baxter wrote: That's right. No execution and no error. The installer finishes (quite quickly!) Doing nothing is quick, even on windows :) as if it did everything according to plan. Anything I can do to help you track down the problem? It's a Win XP system. I think I got the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it

2008-04-13 Thread Bill Baxter
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:08 PM, David Cournapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: Seems to work here now, too! It doesn't tell you in an easy to see place what version of SSE it decides to use. Do you think that's ok? I simply did not think it was useful information.