On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> It looks to me like we're getting a bit off track here. The sparse >> matrices in scipy are heavily used, and despite rough edges pretty good at >> what they do. Deprecating them is not a goal. >> >> The actual goal for the exercise that started this thread (at least as I >> see it) is to remove np.matrix from numpy itself so users (that don't know >> the difference) will only use ndarrays. And the few users that prefer >> np.matrix for teaching can now switch because of @, so their preference >> should have disappeared. >> >> To reach that goal, no deprecation or backwards incompatible changes to >> scipy.sparse are needed. >> > > What is the way forward with sparse? That looks like the biggest blocker > on the road to a matrix free NumPy. I don't see moving the matrix package > elsewhere as a solution for that. > Why not? Ralf
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