[Staging #WUJ-483847]: Re: Support multidimensional arrays in Jython

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
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Ticket ID: WUJ-483847
Department: Support netCDF Java
Priority: Normal
Status: Open