[Numpy-discussion] Deprecate matrices in 1.15 and remove in 1.17?

Stefan van der Walt stefanv at berkeley.edu
Thu Nov 30 14:51:28 EST 2017


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017, at 10:13, josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
> recarrays are another half-hearted feature in numpy that is mostly
> obsolete with pandas and pandas_like DataFrames in other
> packages.

I'm fully on board with factoring out np.matrix into a subpackage.
But I would not touch structured arrays; they are quite useful,
and sometimes perform surprisingly well compared to the other
solutions around.
Stéfan

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