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[Greg Ewing]

Erik Max Francis wrote:

> 
> Are you referring to the proposed outer operator in PEP 211 (which is
> listed as "track")?  Not to be nitpicking, but that's not quite the same
> thing as matrix multiplication.


I wasn't aware of this particular proposal, only that
the Numeric people wanted at least one more operator.
I notice the PEP does say

 > In particular, the new Numeric module (PEP 0209) will overload this
 > operator for multi-dimensional arrays to implement matrix
 > multiplication.

which, from the discussion, seems to be the main
motivation behind adding this operator, and the
rest of it is just a mildly desperate attempt to
give it some meaning in regular Python.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg