Thanks for the responses. I did not realize that dot() would do matrix multiplication which was the main reason I was looking for a matrix-like class. Like you and Tom suggested, I think it's best to stick to arrays.
Cheers, Jason On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM, David Warde-Farley <d...@cs.toronto.edu>wrote: > On 24-May-09, at 8:32 AM, Tom K. wrote: > > > Maybe my reluctance to work with matrices stems from this kind of > > inconsistency. It seems like your code has to be all matrix, or all > > array - > > and if you mix them, you need to be very careful about which is which. > > Also, functions called on things of type matrix may not return a > matrix as expected, but rather an array. > > Anecdotally, it seems to me that lots of people (myself included) seem > to go through a phase early in their use of NumPy where they try to > use matrix(), but most seem to end up switching to using 2D arrays for > all the aforementioned reasons. > > David > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Jason Rennie Research Scientist, ITA Software 617-714-2645 http://www.itasoftware.com/
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