[Numpy-discussion] faster (selection based) median, 2013 edition

2013-05-17 Thread Julian Taylor
hi, once again I want to bring up the median algorithm which is implemented in terms of sorting in numpy. median (and percentile and a couple more functions) can be more efficiently implemented in terms of a selection algorithm. The complexity can them be linear instead of linearithmic. I found n

[Numpy-discussion] Newbie trying to install NumPy

2013-05-17 Thread Joe Piccoli
Hello, I've been trying to install NumPy to run with Eclipse on Windows Vista. After installing (I thought) NumPy I was seeing: ImportError: Error importing numpy: you should not try to import numpy from its source directory; please exit the numpy source tree, and relaunch

[Numpy-discussion] ANN: python-blosc 1.1 RC1 available for testing

2013-05-17 Thread Francesc Alted
Announcing python-blosc 1.1 RC1 What is it? === python-blosc (http://blosc.pydata.org) is a Python wrapper for the Blosc compression library. Blosc (http://blosc.org) is a high performance compressor optimized for binary d

[Numpy-discussion] [ANN] Multidimensional Array - MDArray (0.5.0)

2013-05-17 Thread Rodrigo Botafogo
Although this is not directly connected to NumPy, I believe that it could be of interest to the NymPy community. If, by any reason it is inproper to post this type of announcement on this list, please let me know. I´m happy to announce a new version of MDArray... MDArray === MDArray is a m

Re: [Numpy-discussion] RuntimeWarning: divide by zero encountered in log

2013-05-17 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On 17 May 2013 14:17, "Neal Becker" wrote: > > Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > > On 16 May 2013 19:48, "Jonathan Helmus" wrote: > >> > >> On 05/16/2013 01:42 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > >> > Is there a way to get a traceback instead of just printing the > >> > line that triggered the error? > >> > > >> >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] RuntimeWarning: divide by zero encountered in log

2013-05-17 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > Nathaniel Smith wrote: > >> On 16 May 2013 19:48, "Jonathan Helmus" wrote: >>> >>> On 05/16/2013 01:42 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >>> > Is there a way to get a traceback instead of just printing the >>> > line that triggered the error? >>> > >>> > ___

Re: [Numpy-discussion] RuntimeWarning: divide by zero encountered in log

2013-05-17 Thread Neal Becker
Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On 16 May 2013 19:48, "Jonathan Helmus" wrote: >> >> On 05/16/2013 01:42 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> > Is there a way to get a traceback instead of just printing the >> > line that triggered the error? >> > >> > ___ >> > NumPy-Dis