On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
Like Ellipsis, multidimensional extended slicing, complex numbers, and non-bool rich comparisons? :-)
Indeed! (BTW, I didn't know that Python's complex numbers were NumPy influenced: thanks for that.)
capably handled by the old buffer protocol. Still, it's worth defining the standard to allow third parties to communicate the full spectrum of things they want to tell each other.
Yes, that makes sense. It's not very clear to me what the scope of the Python additions would be. [OT]: How is NumPy's float16 type implemented? Is it clever enough to do correct rounding for all basic arithmetic operations, or does it suffer from the double-rounding problems that you'd get from (convert operands to float64; do op in float64; round back to float16)? Mark