    Numarray is an array processing package designed to efficiently
    manipulate large multi-dimensional arrays.  Numarray is modelled after
    Numeric and features c-code generated from python template scripts,
    the capacity to operate directly on arrays in files, and improved type
    promotions.

    I. ENHANCEMENTS

    1. Repackaging

    numarray has been modified from a collection of Python modules into a
    Python package.   See Doc/Repackaging in the source distribution for
    more details.

    2. Median Filter Function

    See numarray.image.combine.median for a function which computes the
    median pixels in a stack of images.

    3. Thread Safety Work

    Modifications to ufunc caching and IEEE error handling enable numarray
    to work in multi-threaded programs.  This is barebones support, not
    thread awareness.

    II. BUGS FIXED

    733534 Broadcasts of non-array sequences fails
    733535 NA_typeNoToTypeObject sometimes fails
    736674 PyArray_ContiguousFromObject() fails for some scalars
    750320 CharArray.raw() is broken
    750326 building RPMS fails
    754836 Missing Src/_convmodule.c during setup
    756050 chararray multi-d copy fails for recarray
    772519 memory.new_memory() 64-bit scanning bug

    III. CAUTIONS

    1. Due to the distribution repackaging, numarray-0.6 will not install
    correctly on top of an existing numarray installation. Before
    installing numarray-0.6 remove your old version of numarray.

    IV. REQUIREMENTS

    numarray-0.6 requires Python 2.2.2 or greater.

    V. AUTHORS

    Numarray was written by Perry Greenfield, Rick White, Todd Miller, JC
    Hsu, Paul Barrett, Phil Hodge at the Space Telescope Science
    Institute.  Thanks go to Jochen Kupper of the University of North
    Carolina for his work on Numarray and for porting the Numarray manual
    to TeX format.  Thanks also to Edward C. Jones, Francesc Alted,
    Paul Dubois, Eric Jones, Travis Oliphant, Pearu Peterson,
    Konrad Hinsen, and everyone who has contributed with comments
    and feedback.

    VI. LICENSE

    Numarray is made available under a BSD-style License.  See
    LICENSE.txt in the source distribution for details.

    VII. WEB PAGE

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