[Numpy-discussion] A roadmap for NumPy - longer term planning

Stephan Hoyer shoyer at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 11:09:35 EDT 2018


PEP-574 isn't on the roadmap (yet!), but I think we would clearly welcome
it. Like all NumPy improvements, it would need to implemented by an
interested party.
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 1:52 AM Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Do you plan to consider trying to add PEP 574 / pickle5 support? There's
> an implementation ready (and a PyPI backport) that you can play with.
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0574/
>
> PEP 574 implicits targets Numpy arrays as one of its primary producers,
> since Numpy arrays is how large scientific or numerical data often ends
> up represented and where zero-copy is often desired by users.
>
> PEP 574 could certainly be useful even without Numpy arrays supporting
> it, but less so.  So I would welcome any feedback on that front (and,
> given that I'd like PEP 574 to be accepted in time for Python 3.8, I'd
> ideally like to have that feedback sometimes in the forthcoming months
> ;-)).
>
> Best regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
> On Thu, 31 May 2018 16:50:02 -0700
> Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > At the recent NumPy sprint at BIDS (thanks to those who made the trip)
> > we spent some time brainstorming about a roadmap for NumPy, in the
> > spirit of similar work that was done for Jupyter. The idea is that a
> > document with wide community acceptance can guide the work of the
> > full-time developer(s), and be a source of ideas for expanding
> > development efforts.
> >
> > I put the document up at
> > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/NumPy-Roadmap, and hope to discuss
> > it at a BOF session during SciPy in the middle of July in Austin.
> >
> > Eventually it could become a NEP or formalized in another way.
> >
> > Matti
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