[Numpy-discussion] Deprecating matrices.

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 7:26 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> How about dropping python 2 support at the same time, then we can all be
>> in a @ world.
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> The "@" operator works with matrices already, what causes problems is the
> combination  of matrices with 1-D arrays. That can be fixed, I think. The
> big problem is probably the lack of "@" in Python 2.7. I wonder if there is
> any chance of getting it backported to 2.7 before support is dropped in
> 2020? I expect it would be a fight, but I also suspect it would not be
> difficult to do if the proposal was accepted. Then at some future date
> sparse could simply start returning arrays.

Unfortunately the chance of Python 2.7 adding support for "@" is best
expressed as a denormal.

-n

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