[Matplotlib-users] numpy and matrix operations

Hi,

I hope this is the right place to post this question, which is related to
numpy, or numeric or something else...

I want to do some matrix operations, like a singular value decomposition
(svd) or to calculate random number from the multivariate_normal
distributions. These two functions exist in 'numeric', but I cannot use them
(they hang up or give some errors).
Maybe there is any package to download that is compatible with the current
numpy/pylab/matplotlib specifications? Or any other simple way to deal with
such matrix operations? That would be very helpful...

Thanks
  Alex