Two-dimensional arrays

[Terry Reedy]

"monsterkodi" <monsterkodi at gmx.net> wrote in message
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[in response to my response]
> I just think that this way of constructing a multidimensional array
> isn't exactly what I would call a 'very clear and intuitive syntax'.

ok

> Maybe a built in function
> array(width,height,depth=0,value=None)
> which returns a simple 2 or 3-dimensional array, internally
> represented
> as lists of lists (of lists)

"Carl Banks" <imbosol at aerojockey.com> wrote in message
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[also in response to me]

> I think a builtin multidimensional array factory would be nice.  I
> suggest this:
>     multiarray(dims,initializer=None,func=None)
> dims is a sequence of array dimensions.
> initializer is an initializer value.

Interesting convergence of responses.  During the pydev discussion the
new sum() builtin, someone suggested that it might be nice to have a
simple statistics module (which is where min(), max(), and sum() would
belong).   If such a thing were to come to pass, an array function
should certainly be included.

Terry J. Reedy