Possible new multiplication operators for Python
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Hi all, [ please keep all replies to this only on the numpy list. I'm cc'ing the scipy ones to make others aware of the topic, but do NOT reply on those lists so we can have an organized thread for future reference] In the Python-dev mailing lists, there were recently two threads regarding the possibility of adding to the language new multiplication operators (amongst others). This would allow one to define things like an element-wise and a matrix product for numpy arrays, for example: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/081508.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/081551.html It turns out that there's an old pep on this issue: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0225/ which hasn't been ruled out, simply postponed. At this point it seems that there is room for some discussion, and obviously the input of the numpy/scipy crowd would be very welcome. I volunteered to host a BOF next week at scipy so we could collect feedback from those present, but it's important that those NOT present at the conference can equally voice their ideas/opinions. So I wanted to open this thread here to collect feedback. We'll then try to have the bof next week at the conference, and I'll summarize everything for python-dev. Obviously this doesn't mean that we'll get any changes in, but at least there's interest in discussing a topic that has been dear to everyone here. Cheers, f
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Fernando Perez