[New-bugs-announce] [issue9906] including elementary mathematical functions in default types

[Michael Gilbert]

New submission from Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com>:

hi,

it would be really nice if elementary mathematical operations such as sin/cosine (via __sin__ and __cos__) were available as base parts of the python data model [0].  this would make it easier to write new math classes, and it would eliminate the ugliness of things like self.exp().

this would also eliminate the need for separate math and cmath libraries since those could be builtin to the default float and complex types.  of course if those libs were removed, that would cause a lot of backward compatibility breakage.

it would also help new users who just want to do math and don't know that they need to import separate classes just for elementary math functionality.

anyway, just a thought.

[0] http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 116966
nosy: Michael.Gilbert
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: including elementary mathematical functions in default types
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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