X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.16.109 Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.wiretrip.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.010 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'ubuntu': 0.04; 'received:localnet': 0.07; 'looked': 0.10; 'pm,': 0.11; '>>>': 0.12; '25,': 0.12; 'am,': 0.14; 'wrote:': 0.14; 'aptitude': 0.16; 'compile,': 0.16; 'compilers': 0.16; 'installed,': 0.16; 'kern': 0.16; 'module?': 0.16; 'numpy': 0.16; 'libraries': 0.16; 'compile': 0.19; 'modules': 0.20; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'badly': 0.22; '(on': 0.23; 'version': 0.25; 'properly': 0.25; 'thanks': 0.29; 'seem': 0.30; 'cc:addr:gmail.com': 0.31; 'does': 0.31; 'monday': 0.31; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.32; 'source': 0.32; 'thank': 0.32; '(including': 0.33; 'headers': 0.33; '(for': 0.33; 'reference': 0.34; 'there': 0.35; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.35; 'received:au': 0.36; 'case': 0.37; 'addition,': 0.37; 'should': 0.37; '20,': 0.38; 'apr': 0.38; 'but': 0.38; 'pretty': 0.38; 'url:org': 0.38; 'cc:2**1': 0.38; 'machines': 0.39; 'url:au': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'could': 0.39; "it's": 0.40; 'simple': 0.60; 'men': 0.60; 'give': 0.61; 'header:Message-Id:1': 0.62; '2011': 0.62; 'ready': 0.63; 'become': 0.70; 'algebra': 0.84; 'build-dep': 0.84 From: Algis Kabaila Organization: PCUG - Users Helping Users To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Vectors Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:05:38 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-25-generic-pae; KDE/4.5.1; i686; ; ) References: <7f574d15-02f5-4487-8436-99ee148efccc@j16g2000pro.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <7f574d15-02f5-4487-8436-99ee148efccc@j16g2000pro.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rusi , Robert Kern X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 42 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.94.164.166 X-Trace: 1303715151 news.xs4all.nl 65870 [::ffff:82.94.164.166]:50448 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:3971 On Monday 25 April 2011 12:59:38 rusi wrote: > On Apr 25, 4:49 am, Robert Kern wrote: > > On 4/22/11 7:32 PM, Algis Kabaila wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 06:57:23 sturlamolden wrote: > > >> On Apr 20, 9:47 am, Algis Kabaila > > > > > > wrote: > > >>> Are there any modules for vector algebra (three > > >>> dimensional vectors, vector addition, subtraction, > > >>> multiplication [scalar and vector]. Could you give me > > >>> a reference to such module? > > >> > > >> NumPy > > >> > > >> Or one of these libraries (ctypes or Cython): > > >> > > >> BLAS (Intel MKL, ACML, ACML-GPU, GotoBLAS2, or ATLAS) > > >> Intel VML > > >> ACML-VM > > > > > > Thanks for that. Last time I looked at numpy (for > > > Python3) it was available in source only. I know, real > > > men do compile, but I am an old man... I will compile > > > if it is unavoidable, but in case of numpy it does not > > > seem a simple matter. Am I badly mistaken? > > > > On UNIX machines with compilers and headers properly > > installed, it's really pretty straightforward. > > Mostly (on ubuntu/debian) that means do this [Untested] > $ aptitude build-dep python-numpy > Then you should be ready to build/compile numpy from source Thank you, Robert and Rusi, I will try it RSN, but first the latest version of ubuntu that should become available this week (including today?!). OldAl. -- Algis http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/StructuralAnalysis.pdf