New operators needed? (was Re: Discussion: new operators for numerical computation)

[Guido van Rossum]

aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:

> In article <m3lmypfdwe.fsf at chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr>,
> Konrad Hinsen  <hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr> wrote:
> >
> >You raise an important point: adding operators may not be the best
> >solution at all.
> >
> >With the ongoing rework of NumPy that turns arrays into Python classes
> >with an underlying C implementation, it would be possible to have an
> >"array" and a "matrix" class with different semantics, but sharing
> >most of the code and having equal performance. Conversion between the
> >two would also be possible at basically no cost, and C modules could
> >be written to accept both.
> 
> Huzzah!  "And there was much rejoicing in the land...."

By the way, Konrad (hi!) -- what's the status of that reworking?  I've
totally lost track of NumPy.  The SourceForge project doesn't seem
very active.  So how is this going?  Is it going anywhere?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)