Rod Holland wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. So matplotlib should probably call numarray, huh. Well I would like it to, but realistcally, there are many reasons people still need to use Numeric (scipy being one). > How are you handling this transition time? I assume Numeric is being > imported rather than numarray or is something going on in disutils that > checks first for numarray and then defaults to numeric if not present? > Numeric is loaded by default unless you set one of the ways of making numarray the default (it's described on the matplotlib web site (see http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#NUMARRAY thought the link to the numerix page doesn't work for me at the moment) > If not, do you agree that the code should change so that it works > in either > case? > I'll leave it to John to decide on that, but it would seem so (though I don't know how many similar cases there are in the code like this; it may suggest a utility function to coerce rank-0 arrays to scalars or some such thing). Perry