On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 11:10 -0400, Robert Kern wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:36 AM Sebastian Berg < > sebast...@sipsolutions.net> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 10:09 -0400, Brian Racey wrote: > > > Would a "complex default" mode ever make it into numpy, to behave > > > more like > > > Matlab and other packages with respect to complex number > > > handling? > > > Sure it > > > would make it marginally slower if enabled, but it might open the > > > door to > > > better compatibility when porting code to Python. > > > > > > > I think the SciPy versions may have such a default, or there is > > such a > > functionality hidden somewhere (maybe even the switching > > behaviour). > > I am not sure anyone actually uses those, so it may not be a good > > idea > > to use them to be honest. > > > > The versions in `np.lib.scimath` behave like this. Of course, people > do use > them when they want to deal with real numbers as subsets of the > complex > numbers. >
True, I guess I just used complex numbers too rarely in programs (i.e. never central to any programming project). It seems this is actually also exposed as `np.emath`, which is maybe a better entry point? And I guess the scipy namespace uses them. - Sebastian > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
