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+# Compatibility module containing deprecated names
+
+__all__ = ['NewAxis',
+           'UFuncType', 'UfuncType', 'ArrayType', 'arraytype',
+           'LittleEndian', 'arrayrange', 'matrixmultiply',
+           'array_constructor', 'pickle_array',
+           'DumpArray', 'LoadArray', 'multiarray',
+           # from cPickle
+           'dump', 'dumps'
+          ]
+
+import numpy.core.multiarray as multiarray
+import numpy.core.umath as um
+from numpy.core.numeric import array, correlate
+import functions
+import sys
+
+from cPickle import dump, dumps
+
+mu = multiarray
+
+#Use this to add a new axis to an array
+#compatibility only
+NewAxis = None
+
+#deprecated
+UFuncType = type(um.sin)
+UfuncType = type(um.sin)
+ArrayType = mu.ndarray
+arraytype = mu.ndarray
+
+LittleEndian = (sys.byteorder == 'little')
+
+from numpy import deprecate
+
+# backward compatibility
+arrayrange = deprecate(functions.arange, 'arrayrange', 'arange')
+
+# deprecated names
+matrixmultiply = deprecate(mu.dot, 'matrixmultiply', 'dot')
+
+def DumpArray(m, fp):
+    m.dump(fp)
+
+def LoadArray(fp):
+    import cPickle
+    return cPickle.load(fp)
+
+def array_constructor(shape, typecode, thestr, Endian=LittleEndian):
+    if typecode == "O":
+        x = array(thestr, "O")
+    else:
+        x = mu.fromstring(thestr, typecode)
+    x.shape = shape
+    if LittleEndian != Endian:
+        return x.byteswap(True)
+    else:
+        return x
+
+def pickle_array(a):
+    if a.dtype.hasobject:
+        return (array_constructor,
+                a.shape, a.dtype.char, a.tolist(), LittleEndian)
+    else:
+        return (array_constructor,
+                (a.shape, a.dtype.char, a.tostring(), LittleEndian))