[SciPy-user] Re: [SciPy-dev] matrixmultiply()

[Robert Kern]

David Grant wrote:

> What if I start by declaring my arrays using zeros() and ones(), do I
> have to pass it through mat()? That seems like a rather annoying second
> step.

def mzeros(shape, typecode=Float):
     return mat(zeros(shape, typecode))

or

class mymat(Matrix.Matrix):
     def zeros(cls, shape, typecode=Float):
         return cls(zeros(shape, typecode))
     zeroes = classmethod(zeros)

mymat.zeros((3,3))

There's no way to make things syntactically convenient for everyone. 
*Someone* will always pay a bit of a price.

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Robert Kern
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