Re: [Numpy-discussion] proposing a "beware of [as]matrix()" warning

Robert Kern robert.kern@gmail.com writes:

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Overloading '*' and '**' while convenient does have consequences.   It would be nice if we could have a few more infix operators in Python to allow separation of  element-by-element calculations and "dot-product" calculations.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0225/ was considered and rejected. But that was in 2000...

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While I don't have any spare cycles to push it forward and we are already far along on the NumPy to 3.0, I had wondered if we couldn't use the leverage of Python core developers wanting NumPy to be ported to Python 3 to actually add a few more infix operators to the language.

I don't think that stands a chance: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/

Best,

-Nikolaus