[Biopython-dev] Numeric/numpy - Bio/Affy/CelFile.py

[Michiel de Hoon]

Actually, I was under the impression that the latest consensus was to go to NumPy directly. It's quite complicated to support both NumPy and Numerical Python, at least at the C level.

--Michiel.


--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> Subject: [Biopython-dev] Numeric/numpy - Bio/Affy/CelFile.py
> To: "BioPython-Dev Mailing List" <biopython-dev at lists.open-bio.org>
> Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 11:25 AM
> Michiel & Brad,
> 
> It was my impression that for the next release of Biopython
> (or next
> few releases?) we would support either numpy or Numeric
> (decided at
> compile time for the C code, but at run time for
> pure-python modules).
> 
> I notice that with CVS revision 1.5 of Bio/Affy/CelFile.py,
> this file
> only uses numpy (dropping support for Numeric).
> http://code.open-bio.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/biopython/Bio/Affy/CelFile.py.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5&cvsroot=biopython
> 
> Was this just an oversight, or to resolve some
> incompatibility between
> Numeric and numpy?  It would be nice to support both...
> 
> Peter
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