Python evolution: Unease

Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Tue Jan 4 17:36:44 EST 2005


Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Bulba!" <bulba at bulba.com> wrote in message
> 
>>E.g. right now I would kill for a standard, built-in matrix
>>type
> 
> 
> The array types of Numerical Python (NumPy) and now Numarray are, defacto, 
> Python's standard 1 to n dimensional array types.  Once installed, they are 
> as builtin as anything else.  Several other packages build on top of them.

And one of the goals of numarray (which is a complete rewrite of 
Numeric) *is* entry into the standard library.

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Robert Kern
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