Aug. 30, 2001
3:07 p.m.
This is just a followup to my earlier message. The getitem issues I identify there are fixed in Python 2.2, if you use new style class (inherit from object). So, problems 1-3 can be fixed in Python 2.2. It seems that problem 4 could be fixed fairly easily in the python layer by writing wrapper functions in Numeric.py. For example: def cos(a): r = umath.cos(a) if isinstance(a, UserArray): r = a.__class__(r) return r This would be potentially a bit tedious, but straightforward. -tim