On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 09:37 -0400, Perry Greenfield wrote:
On Jul 26, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: [...]
Hmmhh while we are at it, is there work on a consensus num* ? I've seen the PEP for inclusion of numarray, now I see numeric3 and scipy and also cvxopt - are people actually converging towards a single num* package ?
That's what the goal of Numeric3 is as far as different underlying array engines. But if you mean a merging of the array/matrix viewpoints, I think you've answered your own question.
As Alan and Travis suggested Matrices scipy.mat, one could have matrices more or less independently of num* if one could convert them back and forth. Doing so would even allow for doing things differently, like getting submatrices, allowing for real matrix-matrix multiplication etc. However that of course kills consistency. Soeren