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Hi Jim, Frank, Mary, You are right that ucar.ma2 is the successor to ucar.MultiArray. It is part of Unidata's netCDF-Java package. I don't know much about numpy or Jython but we're happy to answer your questions about ucar.ma2. Ethan > Hi Jim, > > I'm embarrassed to say that I'd never heard of ucar.ma2 until you > emailed me about it. It looks like something out of Unidata, so I've > CC'ed their support email address on this. I wish I had more time > to learn more about Jython, but I've got my hands full with > NCL and Python. :-) > > Good luck on your research, > > --Mary > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Jim Baker wrote: > > > Mary, > > > > I'm interested in the possibility of using the ucar.ma2 (I assume this is > > the update of ucar.MultiArray) to prototype a subset of numpy functionality > > for Jython. As you may know, I'm one of the Jython committers. We are in the > > process of also adding ctypes support to Jython, hopefully through a student > > participating in the Google Summer of Code. > > > > This is all in support of being able to take advantage of Jython's better > > support for concurrency, as compared to CPython; and to see if Jython can > > have some wider applicability in computational tasks as a consequence. I > > also happen to be a regular numpy user, and I think it would be wonderful if > > we could merge these two projects together in some way, given their common > > heritage in Jim Hugunin. > > > > Is there someone at UCAR I can get in touch with to discuss this package > > further? I've also cc-ed in Frank Wierzbicki, who is the lead developer of > > Jython. > > > > - Jim > > > > -- > > Jim Baker > > address@hidden > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: WUJ-483847 Department: Support netCDF Java Priority: Normal Status: Open