[Python-ideas] Vectorization [was Re: Add list.join() please]

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On 2019-02-02 04:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> Of course it makes sense. Even numpy supports inhomogeneous data:
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"inhomogeneous"? Who came up with that?

<pendantic> "in-" is a negative prefix in Latin words, but "homogeneous" 
comes from Greek, where the negative prefix is "a-" (or "an-" before a 
vowel). I'd go with either "heterogeneous" or "non-homogeneous". </pedantic>