On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
Since matrices are now part of some high school curricula, I urge that they be treated appropriately in Numpy. Further, I suggest that consideration be given to establishing V and VT sub-classes, to cover vectors and transposed vectors.
The numpy devs don't really have the interest or the skills to create a great library for pedagogical use in high schools. If you're interested in an interface like this, then I'd suggest creating a new package focused specifically on that (which might use numpy internally). There's really no advantage in glomming this into numpy proper.
Sorry for taking this further off-topic, but I recently discovered an excellent SAGE package, <http://www.sagemath.org/>. While it's targeted audience includes math graduate students and research mathematicians, parts of it are accessible to schoolchildren. SAGE is written in Python and integrates a number of packages including numpy. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in using Python for education to take a look at SAGE.