[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Open Issues (packages, umath, ...)

[David Ascher]

> The way I envision this being used (and this is partially contingenent on
> package choices in the future, is as follows:
> 
> import Numeric
> import fast_umath
> umath = fast_umath
> 
> umath.log(1.0)
> 
> ie. the math functions are moved to their own name-space and the access
> through Numeric is not used in general.
> 
> Does this seem less cumbersome?

Yes and no.  I understand how to control which umath to use in my
modules, but how can I tell the LinearAlgebra package to use a different
umath than its default?  Or is that not deemed a good idea?

--david

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