consistency: extending arrays vs. multiplication ?

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:50 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 13:36 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > 
> >>On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:30:02 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
[...]
> >>Lists in Python can contain anything, not just numeric values.
> > 
> > That seems to be *the point*.
> 
> Whose point? If you mean that you want to be able to use arbitrary 
> objects in an array, then look in numarray.objects for an array type 
> that handles arbitrary Python objects.

Well, one cannot efficiently deal with these 'list-arrays' as they can
contain different data types (typechecking necessary; atlas etc won't
work).

[...]
> > *I* would rather drop
> > '+' and '*' to work like they do in *array ...
> 
> Tough. It's 14 years or so too late to make that change.

Ok got it.

A seperate array type which can only contain objects of the same type
simply makes sense.

Soeren