[Numpy-discussion] deprecate numpy.matrix

[alex]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Alan G Isaac <alan.isaac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2/10/2014 3:04 PM, Matthew Brett wrote:
>>> > I teach psychologists and neuroscientists mainly
>>>
>>>
>>> I must suspect that notebook was not for
>>> **undergraduate** psychology students.
>>> At least, not the ones I usually meet.
>>>
>>> SymPy is great but for those without background
>>> it is at best awkward.  It certainly does not
>>> offer an equivalent to the notational convenience
>>> of numpy's matrix object.
>>>
>>>
>>> As far as I have been able to discern, the underlying
>>> motivation for eliminating the matrix class is that
>>> some developers want to stop supporting in any form
>>> the subclassing of numpy arrays.  Do I have that right?
>>>
>>> So the real question is not about numpy's matrix class,
>>> but about whether subclassing will be supported.
>>> (If I'm correctly reading the tea leaves.)
>>>
>>
>> I don't see any reason to remove the Matrix object. It has its limitations,
>> I don't use it myself, but it costs little and I don't see the value of
>> forcing users to change.
>
> Maybe it would help to take 'remove the Matrix object' off the table
> so we don't get side-tracked.  Does anyone disagree with the proposal
> to take that off the table?

No I really want to remove it :)  If a non-frivolous NEP is written,
this can be a token extreme opinion to be immediately discounted as
not a practical solution.