On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:48:11AM -0500, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
> As an aside to those who use scipy's sparse matrices: do you find it
> troublesome that scipy's sparse things behave like matrices instead of
> like ndarrays?

Yes I do.

> Of course this should be brought up on a main scipy list, but I
> thought I'd first ask people who actually use the code  :)

Each discussion on the scipy mailing about matrices versus arrays raises
a thread expressing incomprehension across different groups of users that
either think that matrix objects are dangerous and to be avoided, or
fundamental to expressing linear algebra and teaching it. You can try
raising a discussion, but because of this incomprehension it might not go
there. Besides, I also think that is a fairly invasive change, and it
would break many people's code, which explains legitimate reticence.

Gael

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