On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Charles R
Harris
I don't think we can change the current matrix class, to do so would break too much code. It would be nice to extend it with an explicit inner product, but I can't think of any simple notation for it that python would parse.
Maybe it's time to make another push on python-dev for the pep-225 stuff for other operators? https://cirl.berkeley.edu/fperez/static/numpy-pep225/ Last year I got pretty much zero interest from python-dev on this, but they were very very busy with 3.0 on the horizon. Perhaps once they put 3.1 out would be a good time to champion this again. It's slightly independent of the matrix class debate, but perhaps having special operators for real matrix multiplication could ease some of the bottlenecks of this discussion. It would be great if someone could champion that discussion on python-dev though, I don't see myself finding the time for it another time around... Cheers, f