[Numpy-discussion] Deprecating matrices.

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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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