Simon Willison’s Weblog

3 items tagged “numpy”

2020

Array programming with NumPy—the NumPy paper (via) The NumPy paper is out, published in Nature. I found this enlightening: for an academic paper it’s very understandable, and it filled in quite a few gaps in my mental model of what NumPy is and which problems it addresses, as well as its relationship to the many other tools in the scientific Python stack. # 17th September 2020, 4:34 pm

2019

Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser (via) More fun with WebAssembly: Pyodide attempts (and mostly succeeds) to bring the full Python data stack to the browser: CPython, NumPy, Pandas, Scipy, and Matplotlib. Also includes interesting bridge tools for e.g. driving a canvas element from Python. Really interesting project from the Firefox Data Platform team. # 17th April 2019, 4:23 am

2017

PyPy v5.9 Released, Now Supports Pandas, NumPy. NumPy and Pandas now work on PyPy2.7. “Many other modules based on C-API extensions work on PyPy as well.” # 5th October 2017, 4:58 pm