Dear Raymond,
Thank you for your email.
I think much of this thread is a repeat of conversations
that were held for PEP 225:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0225/
That PEP is marked as deferred. Maybe it's time to
bring it back to life.
This is a much better PEP than the one I had
Dear Greg,
Thank you for your email.
In MATLAB, the elementwise operations are probably
used fairly infrequently. But numpy arrays are often
used to vectorise what are otherwise scalar operations,
in which case elementwise operations are used almost
exclusively.
Your assessment of
Greg Ewing said:
I would actually be in favour of adding a matrix multiplication
operator
That would be helpful to me, for my students as well as my papers.
Sincerely,
--
Sébastien Loisel
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Dear Pythonistas,
I've googled for this but I wasn't able to find anything definitive. I was
recently looking at scipy to see if I could use it in stead of MATLAB for my
class on numerical PDEs, but I noticed that there's some difficulty related
to the notation; mainly, the matrix multiplication,
Dear Josiah,
Thank you for your email.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Josiah Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What the heck does 'x = 4 $ 6' mean in Python? Oh, that's right, it's
a custom infix operator. But where is it defined? In the module? In
some other module that is imported?
Dear Curt,
Thank you for your email.
Have you considered OCaml? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocaml) It's
I have. I've considered a lot of languages, but OCaml isn't for me. My
current language is MATLAB. Python is pretty close in syntax, and it's
widely accepted, so you can teach students
Dear Greg,
Thanks for your email.
Guido is on record as opposing any kind of macros
or other extensible syntax, and this probably comes
under the same heading.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for when I asked:
Now since this is such a simple idea, I'm guessing it occured to
