On 9/4/07, Steven H. Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Concur. Array processing would be a very practical addition to the > standard library. It's used extensively in engineering, finance, and > the sciences. It looks like they may find room in the OLPC XO for key > subsets of NumPy and Matplotlib. They want it both as a teaching > resource and to optimize their software suite as a whole. If they're > successful, we'll have a lot of young pythoneers expecting this > functionality.
I still don't see why the standard library needs to be weighed down with a competitor to numpy. Including a subset of numpy was considered in the past, but it's hard to decide on the right subset. In the end it was decided that numpy is too big to become a standard library. Given all the gyrations it has gone through I definitely believe this was the right decision. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
