[Biopython-dev] PATCH: NumPy support for BioPython

Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon mdehoon at c2b2.columbia.edu
Sat Mar 10 03:25:50 UTC 2007


Ed Schofield wrote:
> On 3/9/07, Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon <mdehoon at c2b2.columbia.edu> wrote:
>> So, if we use this macro instead of CONTIGUOUS directly, we can avoid
>> using oldnumeric.h. Or am I missing something?
> 
> Yeah, sure, but why would we want to avoid using oldnumeric.h?

Why #include oldnumeric.h if we don't need it? The fewer changes we need 
to make to Biopython and the cleaner we can keep the code, the better. I 
see no justification for #including an unnecessary header file.

--Michiel.

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Michiel de Hoon
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Columbia University
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New York, NY 10032



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