[SciPy-user] matrix mult operator

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 12:49:26 EDT 2007


dmitrey wrote:

> what about an operator, something like !* or *!
> 
> def evalF(A,B,C, D):
>     return A !* (B !* C).T !* D + C !* (D !* B).T * A
> 
> it's much more readable.
> Of course, you can wait till Python will support unicode, but as for me 
> I would prefere not to wait so long.

We do not control the Python language. We cannot add operators to the language.
FWIW, the support of Unicode identifiers that is coming in 3.0 still won't allow
you to define new operators.

-- 
Robert Kern

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 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
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