Editing NumPy (section)

===Numarray===
A new package called ''Numarray'' was written as a more flexible replacement for Numeric.<ref name="cise"/><!--for sure not "cise2"? --> Like Numeric, it too is now deprecated.<ref>{{cite web| title = Numarray Homepage | url = http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray | access-date = 2006-06-24}}</ref><ref name="NumPyBook">{{cite book
  | title = Guide to NumPy
  | author = Travis E. Oliphant
  | date = 7 December 2006
  | url = https://archive.org/details/NumPyBook
  | access-date = 2 February 2017
}}</ref> Numarray had faster operations for large arrays, but was slower than Numeric on small ones,<ref>{{cite web| title = <nowiki>[Numpy-discussion]</nowiki> Status of Numeric
  | author = Travis Oliphant and other SciPy developers
  | url = https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2004-January/002645.html
  | access-date = 2 February 2017
}}</ref> so for a time both packages were used in parallel for different use cases. The last version of Numeric (v24.2) was released on 11 November 2005, while the last version of numarray (v1.5.2) was released on 24 August 2006.<ref>{{cite web| title = NumPy Sourceforge Files | url = http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369 | access-date = 2008-03-24}}</ref>

There was a desire to get Numeric into the Python standard library, but Guido van Rossum decided that the code was not maintainable in its state then.{{when|date=October 2013}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scipy.github.io/old-wiki/pages/History_of_SciPy.html|title=History_of_SciPy - SciPy wiki dump|website=scipy.github.io}}</ref>