I'm not sure NumPy should be the default until Numeric support is
removed. Legacy programs expect Numeric. They do not call the
.set_arraytype() functions if they require Numeric specifically. Also
surfarray and sndarray are still faster with Numeric. Besides, NumPy is
probably the default by default now as few people likely have Numeric
installed. Any software that requires NumPy should do a
.set_arraytype('numpy'). This also provides some insurance should NumPy
be replaced by the next great, somewhat incompatible, array package.
Lenard
Charlie Nolan wrote:
If we're phasing out Numeric, wouldn't it be a good idea to make NumPy
the default when both are available?
-FM
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, NumPy is nicer. Numeric is showing its age. NumPy makes better use of
the Python features introduced with Python 2.2, unified types and classes.
As I mentioned though, Numeric support won't disappear from Pygame just yet.
Rather any future efforts will be concentrated on NumPy.
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Lenard Lindstrom
<[email protected]>
