Download Numeric Python

(Last Modified: 19-Mar-97)

The current release of Numeric Python is 1.0beta2. This is approximately the 15th release of NumPy. It all began with a 0.1 release in September of 1995, and has progressed through numerous alpha releases and major version changes all released within the matrix-sig (a wonderful group of early testers) to the point where there is now a somewhat stable system available for general use. Nevertheless, this is still beta software, and you should not download this release if the possibility of segmentation faults frightens you. That said, here it is.

Binary Distribution for Windows NT/95 and PythonWin

You must have Mark Hammond's PythonWin-10-b7 or later installed for this to work. The following binary file is a self-extracting setup program for Numeric Python based on Mark's extension install scripts. This should be as easy as running this file on your computer and following the setup instructions. You should try and get the first link which will use the ftp protocol to transfer the file. This is both more efficient, and should work with more browsers. If the program will not run after you download it, the most likely problem is that your browser downloaded in text rather than binary format. Check that the number of bytes in the file is exactly 452,534. If this is not the case, then your browser downloaded the file as text. Try to convince your browser to do otherwise, but send me mail if you can't get this to work (with a complete list of what you tried).

Windows Binary Distribution via ftp - NumPy-10-b2.exe (441K). (This should work with Navigator and Explorer).

Windows Binary Distribution via http - NumPy-10-b2.exe (441K). (This doesn't appear to work with Netscape Navigator).

Source Distribution

Python1.4 Final is needed to build this release. No previous versions will work. It is much easier to build Numeric Python if you have access to the python source tree; however, it can be built as a clean extension from a full Python1.4 Final installation. These sources will build under either Unix, Windows, or DOS/DJGPP machines. Note: the installation instructions are only relevant for Unix systems. If you want to build from sources under Windows, you're on your own (see above for the nicely packaged binary distribution instead).