[Numpy-discussion] future directions

2009-08-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Some weeks ago there was a post on this list requesting feedback on possible future directions for numpy. As I was quite busy at that time I'll reply to it now. My POV is that of a novice user, who at the same time wants quite badly to use the numpy framework for his numerical work which in this c

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Scipy Conference 2009 Lecture Recordings

2009-07-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:27:03PM -0400, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote: > But keep in mind there are costs to running the event, and an associated > registration fee. It seems only fair that any webcasting or recording > only be made available at some cost to the viewers. I would be happy to > pay t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] performing operations in-place in numpy

2009-07-09 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:00:23PM -0500, Robert Kern wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:44, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > There is a simple rule which says that if you use an object > > pointer as a function argument you must INCREF it. This is > > just the logical consequ

Re: [Numpy-discussion] performing operations in-place in numpy

2009-07-09 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:30:11PM +0100, Citi, Luca wrote: > Also one could have an internal flag which says whether or not is safe > to overwrite inputs with ref_count=1. > Then import_array() sets this flag to "unsafe" (i.e. current behaviour). > If the user of the numpy C-api is aware of how t

[Numpy-discussion] ndarray and the buffer protocol

2009-07-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, (resending for the Nth time, as the previous attempts didn't make it to the list) I'm new to this list (and numpy is mostly new to me :-). Using python 2.6 and numpy 1.3. My plan is to write some C extensions that will perform rather specialised processing on multichannel digital au

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Problem with ML subscriptions?

2009-07-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:01:55PM +0100, Peter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:22:37AM +0200, Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > > > >> 2009/7/5 Pauli Virtanen : > >> > 2009-07-04 22:52 +

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Problem with ML subscriptions?

2009-07-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:22:37AM +0200, Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > 2009/7/5 Pauli Virtanen : > > 2009-07-04 22:52 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > [clip] > >> I subscribed to numpy-discussion almost two days ago. > >> I do receive messages from the lis