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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Sep 4 04:57:49 CEST 2007

On 9/3/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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.

But what's the point, given that numpy already exists? Wouldn't you just be redoing the work that numpy has already done?

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