[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 218 (sets); moving set.py to Lib

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:46:31 +1200 (NZST)


pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard):

> Eric has offered the idea of adding Cartesian product, and despite the
> usual notation is a tall thin `X', maybe it would be nice reserving
> `*' for that?

Maybe '%'? It looks a bit X-ish.

Or if Python ever gets a dedicated matrix-multiplication
operator, maybe that could be reused.

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