[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] J-style arrays in Python

[Hinsen Konrad]

   I don't agree with this.  In general, I'm not a fan of 
   "from spam import *".

Neither am I, in general. But...

   > (important for calculator-style use).

   Why?

To avoid having to type the module name all over again, of course. I
am using my array module mostly to work (interactively) on simulation
results read in from files (I didn't include the I/O in the version I
sent around, because it still works only for a few special cases). So
I am typing things like

  sqrt(Array("file1"))*Array("file2)

which I prefer a lot to

  Array.sqrt(Array.Array("file1"))*Array.Array("file2)

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