Mailman 3 May 2000 - NumPy-Discussion

Binaries for Windows?
by hinsen＠dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr May 31, 2000

May 31, 2000

Is there any place where one can get Windows binaries for NumPy, even if it's not the latest release? SourceForge only has source and Linux binary versions, and the LLNL site doesn't seem to exist any more. Konrad. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen(a)cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.55.69 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Revision to MA checked in
by Paul F. Dubois May 29, 2000

May 29, 2000

I have checked into CVS a major improvement to MA, the missing array facility.

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New development tree now on SourceForge.
by Travis Oliphant May 26, 2000

May 26, 2000

As I have received several encouraging emails of interested people, I'm excited to announce the availability of an experimental Numerical Python revision on the NumPy SourceForge site. I've placed it under the directoryname numpy2 (checkout that directory according to the CVS instructions). It is NOT COMPLETED yet, so only people interested in a particular view of a future arrayobject or who want to help fashion that view should check it out. Summary: It builds on the current NumPy. Operations should not change on the Python level. Important new operations will be added. C-API is changed but support for backward-near-compatibility is desired and sought after. Only an NDArray class and a Ufunc class along with standard operations on them is set for inclusion in the new development. Other components will be added modules. NDArray: This is a Python class with C-calls placed for speed of certain operations. It is built around a data object which can be any Python object exporting a buffer interface (including a buffer object) and a dimensions/strides object which is also relies on the buffer interface. A C-API gives C-users access to the pointers for this information for any subclass of NDArray. Ufunc: This is a Python class that encapsulates the N-D looping structure with the broadcasting rules. It will allow wrapping of fast C functions as well as Python functions. It basically consists of two attributes: a select function (for type coercion and specification) and a compute function that does the actual computation. Comments and feedback (and especially code) are welcomed. -Travis

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QP and SQP
by Fredrik Stenberg May 25, 2000

May 25, 2000

Hi, Has anyone written any quadratic programming algoritm? If so, please let me now. /fredriks

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fast umath
by Rob Managan May 12, 2000

May 12, 2000

Is the fast umath module dead? If so lets pull the source code! I ask since the fast_umath source is still there but apparently not updated. The calls PyUFunc_FromFuncAndData have the wrong number of arguments. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan <mailto://[email protected]> LLNL ph: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808

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Re: [Numpy-discussion] LLNL distribution? (fwd)
by Johann Hibschman May 11, 2000

May 11, 2000

Thomas Shepard writes: >> Thought you may like to see this. >> Do you know of any other users of the Gist module besides yourself? > Everyone who uses Yorick uses the gist package within Yorick, and there > are a lot of such people at LLNL and worldwide. Since some major new LLNL > production codes will be python based, I predict significant interest > in the Python Gist package. I do wonder how many users of Yorick there are. I am sure I'm the only one in the Berkeley astronomy department, for example. I will take a look at the Gist source, and see if I can understand it well enough to support it. I haven't used Gist all that much, but I finally found a problem that I couldn't solve with the other graphics packages I know, so I've started using it again. > Regarding xfiles.llnl.gov, I am pretty sure that the server is now > behind the new LLNL firewall and therefore invisible to the outside > world. But it still exists. It would be a good idea to arrange for > these packages to be available somewhere where outsiders can get them. I found LLNLDistribution11 on the ftp-icf site, so I'm set for now. I could look into sourceforge as a distribution site. Then again, I'd like to graduate by December, so I'm likely to be busy on my own projects, stamping down gamma-rays and unruly pair plasmas, without much time for purely programming work. ;-) --Johann -- Johann Hibschman johann(a)physics.berkeley.edu

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Re: [Numpy-discussion] LLNL distribution? (fwd)
by Thomas Shepard May 10, 2000

May 10, 2000

>Hi Thomas; > >I read with interest your message about Gist. I've been using it with >Python on an SGI and a Linux box. Do packages like Ezplot, etc, run on the >Macintosh? > I think the answer to that is no, unless there is a version of Ezplot I don't know about, which is quite possible. Gist provides all the functionality available in Ezplot and, in my opinion, is easier to use than Ezplot (although Ezplot is not difficult either). There are publicly available Yorick versions that run on windows and macs which use Gist with the corresponding graphics engines. I don't know if anyone has made python modules using the windows or mac versions of the Gist graphics engines. If not, I don't think it would be very hard to do. I wonder if the upcoming mac OS X will support Xlib. Does anybody know? PS: Another great feature of Gist I forgot to mention: It produces great-looking publication-quality output directly. The choice of things like tick marks, line thicknesses, fonts, etc. (which is quasi-infinitely customizable) that Gist makes is very good. In contrast, things that other packages I have used do: Use the thinnest possible lines for everything, presumably because they think someone is going to scale data off the plot using a ruler and need to keep it precise. This results in thin lines that don't reproduce well. Insist on writing unrequested text to the plots (think "core dump"). Write some text on top of other text. Thomas D. Shepard LLNL A Division tdshepard(a)llnl.gov 925 423 4018 b111 r627 L-31

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Re: [Numpy-discussion] LLNL distribution? (fwd)
by Thomas Shepard May 10, 2000

May 10, 2000

>Thought you may like to see this. >Do you know of any other users of the Gist module besides yourself? Everyone who uses Yorick uses the gist package within Yorick, and there are a lot of such people at LLNL and worldwide. Since some major new LLNL production codes will be python based, I predict significant interest in the Python Gist package. Currently, I have heard that Marty Marinak uses the Python Gist package within an LLNL python-based code. I haven't tried to do a survey, so there may well be others. I intend to use it for my work, which would then expose it to my co-workers and collaborators, many of whom already use Yorick with its Gist interface. Gist is a very efficient graphics package, due in part to being written directly to Xlib rather than layered on top of some other interface, and due also to the skill of Gist's author (Dave Munro). (It is also very easy to write additional efficient graphics engines for Gist, as has been done by Steve Langer for windows and macOS.) Gist also has a very well designed interface (both "user friendly" and efficient, an unusual combination) with features that were tailored specifically to the needs of LLNL physicists. In my opinion, it would be a tragedy if Gist were lost. Regarding xfiles.llnl.gov, I am pretty sure that the server is now behind the new LLNL firewall and therefore invisible to the outside world. But it still exists. It would be a good idea to arrange for these packages to be available somewhere where outsiders can get them. > >Lee Taylor > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:33:19 -0700 >From: "L. Busby" <busby(a)icf.llnl.gov> >To: johann(a)physics.berkeley.edu >Cc: motteler(a)icf.llnl.gov, numpy-discussion(a)lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] LLNL distribution? > >[ Johann Hibschman <johann(a)physics.berkeley.edu> asks ] >>Is there still a publically available LLNL distribution of NumPy? >> >>Or, more precisely, now that NumPy has been spun off as a separate >>project, where should I look for updates to the Gist module? Is >>it still available? >> >>xfiles.llnl.gov doesn't seem to be there anymore... > >The older versions of the LLNL distribution, including the Gist module, >continue to be available at ftp-icf.llnl.gov:/pub/python. > >There haven't been any updates to Gist in well over a year. We (Zane >Motteler and I) have zero local customers for it, and a multitude of >other programmatic responsibilities. We realize that it would be nice >simply to dis-entangle Gist from the old distribution and make it >available as a separate Python package, perhaps using Distutils, or >not, or as an RPM, or as an SRPM, or as a Debian package. There is no >time and no support for this activity. If you the reader would like to >undertake the project, you have our blessing. > >_______________________________________________ >Numpy-discussion mailing list >Numpy-discussion(a)lists.sourceforge.net >http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion Thomas D. Shepard LLNL A Division tdshepard(a)llnl.gov 925 423 4018 b111 r627 L-31

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RE: [Numpy-discussion] HTML/SGML docs
by Hassan Aurag May 9, 2000

May 9, 2000

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RE: [Numpy-discussion] HTML/SGML docs
by Hassan Aurag May 9, 2000

May 9, 2000

Ok, I am looking at suggestions. I have already looked at another NumPy doc that looks like Python online docs. What I really would like to do is have: -A way of retrieving from a stable web page the TOC of documentation that I'd then put in a custom gnome-tree-like widget and when the user clicks on one item it'd open a link to online corresponding page. -An entry widget that'd have a search item that look in index of docs (online) and return all possible choices then when user chooses one show the corresponding page. -A bookmarking facility so that users can go back quickly to places they have seen. -The choice to download the whole .tar.gz thing to browse off-line. All of the above is easy to implement, and I have already started doing so with GMatH (http://gmath.sourceforge.net), provided there is a known stable place where to look for these docs. I already have a place to look for, but I forgot the address. All I need is some nifty .py thing that'd fetch the TOC, and index (from web site) and search through that index. I am not very good with urllib or httpblib, so any help is welcome. Thanks > From: "Paul F. Dubois" <pauldubois(a)home.com> > To: "Hassan Aurag" <aurag(a)CRM.UMontreal.CA>, <numpy-discussion(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: RE: [Numpy-discussion] HTML/SGML docs > Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 07:33:04 -0700 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > Importance: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 > > The document source is Framemaker, which can produce HTML and PDF. > > It would be best to have an collaborative framework such as the Zope one > recently announced, if it works well; I haven't tried that yet. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: numpy-discussion-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Hassan > > Aurag > > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 7:58 PM > > To: numpy-discussion(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Numpy-discussion] HTML/SGML docs > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I think I have asked this question a couple of thousand times, but are > > there plans to have HTML/SGML docs, or in other words, can we expect > > to have the source form of this beast. > > I have reached the point where I know how to integrate a nice gtkhtml > > (gnome html in fact) widget ad browse html docs (HURRAY!). Now I'd > > like to us it for something. The nifty thing would be for me to have > > some kind of docbook thinggy. Which means a huge collection of html > > pages with automagic links to prev, next, up, home..... Then I'd show > > the contents in one window using a tree-like thing and the rest in > > another (a real html widget). > > Thanks again > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Numpy-discussion mailing list > > Numpy-discussion(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > ------------- End Forwarded Message -------------

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