Guido van Rossum wrote: > But what's the point, given that numpy already exists? Wouldn't you > just be redoing the work that numpy has already done?
Sometimes I just want to do something simple like adding two vectors together, and it seems unreasonable to add the whole of numpy as a dependency just to get that. Currently Python has built-in ways of doing arithmetic, and built-in ways of storing arrays of numbers efficiently, but no built-in way of doing arithmetic on arrays of numbers efficiently. I'd like to see some of the core machinery of numpy moved into the Python stdlib, and numpy refactored so that it builds on that. Then there wouldn't be duplication. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
