Unfortunately, the world of Python arrays is (or better: was) a little complicated and parts of the history still affects the Debian packages now, so this page tries to explain how it works. But in short: just use python-numpy, it contains both the newest NumPy and f2py.
python-numpy is part of the DPMT.
History
First, there was Numeric. Then people at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) created Numarray, to overcome some limitations with Numeric. Then Travis Oliphant decided to merge improvements from numarray, while retaining the structure of Numeric and the new project is called NumPy.
f2py, developed by Pearu Peterson, used to have a webpage here, but later it merged with NumPy, so it has a page here.
Debian packages now
Source packages:
- builds: python-numeric, python-numeric-dbg, python-numeric-ext, python-numeric-ext-dbg, python-numeric-tutorial
- provides the Numeric
deprecated, but many projects still need it, so it will stay in Debian
- builds: python-numarray, python-numarray-dbg, python-numarray-ext, python-numarray-doc
- provides the numarray
deprecated, but some people still need it, so it will stay in Debian
- builds: python-f2py
- provides the old f2py, compatible with Numeric
deprecated, but people still using Numeric will need this package if they want to use f2py, it will stay in Debian
- builds: python-numpy, python-numpy-dbg, python-numpy-ext, python-numpy-dev, python-numpy-doc
use this package, it's the most recent NumPy and it also contains the newest f2py
See also python-scipy for information about SciPy packages in Debian.