[Numpy-discussion] start of an array (tensor) and dataframe API standardization initiative

[Ralf Gommers]

Hi all,

I'd like to share this announcement blog post about the creation of a
consortium for array and dataframe API standardization here:
https://data-apis.org/blog/announcing_the_consortium/. It's still in the
beginning stages, but starting to take shape. We have participation from
one or more maintainers of most array and tensor libraries - NumPy,
TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, Dask, JAX, Xarray. Stephan Hoyer, Travis
Oliphant and myself have been providing input from a NumPy perspective.

The effort is very much related to some of the interoperability work we've
been doing in NumPy (e.g. it could provide an answer to what's described in
https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0037-array-module.html#requesting-restricted-subsets-of-numpy-s-api
).

At this point we're looking for feedback from maintainers at a high level
(see the blog post for details).

Also important: the python-record-api tooling and data in its repo has very
granular API usage data, of the kind we could really use when making
decisions that impact backwards compatibility.

Cheers,
Ralf
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