[Numpy-discussion] Deprecating matrices.

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> Just throwing this click bait out for discussion. Now that the `@`
>> operator is available and things seem to be moving towards Python 3,
>> especially in the classroom, we should consider the real possibility of
>> deprecating the matrix type and later removing it. No doubt there are old
>> scripts that require them, but older versions of numpy are available for
>> those who need to run old scripts.
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>> Thoughts?
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> Clearly deprecate in the docs now, and warn only later imho. We can't warn
> before we have a good solution for scipy.sparse matrices, which have matrix
> semantics and return matrix instances.
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> Ralf
>

How about dropping python 2 support at the same time, then we can all be in
a @ world.

Josef



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