[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] prototype release status report

[James Hugunin]

Just to keep people informed of the current status of the next release of
my matrix object (which I had been claiming would be ready last night).

I read Tom's message yesterday and realized that I really need to get my
matrixMultiply and transpose operators working properly ASAP.  I spent most  
of the day today crunching code to make this happen, and it's still not
quite working.  The challenge is to support APL style matrixMultiply[1,2]
(and permutations of that) to multiply an array of vectors by an array of
matrices in the proper fashion.  I should have this working sometime this
weekend and then I'll make the new release available.

Sorry to keep people waiting.

-Jim

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Quick preview of the most exciting things in the next release:

type coercion is implemented for matrices, ie.
Matrix_i(1,2,3)*Matrix_f(1.,2.,3.) = Matrix_f(1.,4.,9.)

matrix printing is now controlled by a callback to a user-settable python
function for prettier matrix printing.

a**b works for pow(a,b) (Thanks to Konrad)

a[1,2,3] works for  multidimensional indexing (Thanks to Konrad)

pickling matrices works

and much more.


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