[Python-Dev] PEP 465: A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Apr 8 03:04:29 CEST 2014


On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:04:18PM -0700, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014, at 14:58, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > On Apr 07, 2014, at 05:47 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> > 
> > >Python used to have an alias <> for != and I for one miss <> in 3.x.  I
> > >don't think TOOWTDI should be the last word in this debate.
> > 
> > PEP 401 to the rescue:
> 
> It occurs to me that since that Aprils' Fools joke is many years old
> now, we should remove it.

-1 on removal.

It makes a nice Easter Egg, especially now that "import this" has become 
less of an Easter Egg and more of a standard Python module :-)



-- 
Steven


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