numpy

I just officially registered for the Vancouver Python Conference. I am really looking forward to it even though it will take up my entire Saturday and Sunday. It is too bad I don't have a laptop that isn't ancient, otherwise I might give a lightning talk on numpy since it is completely absent from the talk schedule. Had I thought about it earlier I would have prepared and offered to give a talk on how to use NumPy for the beginner's track of the schedule. Maybe next year. Besides with Numpy having a 1.0 release by next year, maybe they will be able to get Travis Oliphant to visit. :-) or at least someone more knowledgeable in numpy than me.

My favourite numerics package, Numpy is close to a 1.0 release. 1.0 (beta1) was just released last Friday and a branch for 1.1 has been created. Things are really getting interesting and it is nice to finally have an almost-standard numerics package for Python (compared to before when there was numarray and numeric which both didn't have heavy development activity).