[Python-Dev] Product function patch [issue 1093] (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Sep 4 00:59:30 CEST 2007

Ryan Freckleton wrote:

At one time Guido mentioned adding a built-in product() function to cover some of the remaining use cases of the built-in reduce().

Speaking of such things, I was thinking the other day that it might be useful to have somewhere in the stdlib a full set of functions for doing elementwise operations and reductions on the built-in array type.

This would make it possible for one to do efficient bulk arithmetic when the need arises from time to time without having to pull in a heavyweight dependency such as Numeric or numpy.

-- Greg

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