Travis Oliphant - state of NumPy/wrapping C

- API preserves the Numeric API

- dtypes are Python objects; they allow setting byte length and endianness
- also handle C-vs.-Fortran ordering, and contiguity
- allow record arrays

- using Python to wrap C... better solutions than SWIG
- weave (write code, do weave.inline(code,['var1','var2']))
- ctypes