[IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

Gary C Martin gary at garycmartin.com
Mon Nov 24 21:33:48 EST 2008


On 25 Nov 2008, at 00:52, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

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> Gary C Martin wrote:
>> Just a nit pick, SciPy is much replaced by Numpy though SciPy still
>> overlaps enough the documentation seems pretty useful.
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> This is a typo.  You mean that Numeric and Numarray are replaced by  
> NumPy.
> SciPy is NumPy's sister project.  NumPy provides fast array primitives
> for Python, and SciPy uses NumPy to implement a variety of high-level
> sci/math functions such as clustering, quadrature, maximum entropy
> methods, and signal processing.

Thanks Ben, yes my apologies for the confusion. I've just re-read the  
opening chapter to "Guide to NumPy" as a penance (it's all about the  
dev history, forks, and community splits).

--Gary

> - --Ben
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