Chapter 6. Move Further with NumPy Modules

NumPy has a number of modules that have been inherited from its predecessor, Numeric. Some of these packages have a SciPy counterpart, which may have fuller functionality. This will be discussed in a later chapter. The numpy.dual package contains functions that are defined both in NumPy and SciPy. The packages discussed in this chapter are also part of the numpy.dual package.

In this chapter, we shall cover the following topics:

• The linalg package

• The fft package

• Random numbers

• Continuous and discrete distributions