On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Charles R Harris > <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 7:26 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > >> How about dropping python 2 support at the same time, then we can all be > >> in a @ world. > >> > > > > The "@" operator works with matrices already, what causes problems is the > > combination of matrices with 1-D arrays. That can be fixed, I think. The > > big problem is probably the lack of "@" in Python 2.7. I wonder if there > is > > any chance of getting it backported to 2.7 before support is dropped in > > 2020? I expect it would be a fight, but I also suspect it would not be > > difficult to do if the proposal was accepted. Then at some future date > > sparse could simply start returning arrays. > > Unfortunately the chance of Python 2.7 adding support for "@" is best > expressed as a denormal. > That's what I figured ;) Hmm, matrices would work fine with the current combination of '*' (works for scalar muiltiplication) and '@' (works for matrices). So for Python3 code currently written for matrices can be reformed to be array compatible. But '@' for Python 2.7 would sure help... Chuck
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