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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Sep 4 16:38:58 CEST 2007

On 9/4/07, Steven H. Rogers <steve at shrogers.com> wrote:

Concur. Array processing would be a very practical addition to the standard library. It's used extensively in engineering, finance, and the sciences. It looks like they may find room in the OLPC XO for key subsets of NumPy and Matplotlib. They want it both as a teaching resource and to optimize their software suite as a whole. If they're successful, we'll have a lot of young pythoneers expecting this functionality.

I still don't see why the standard library needs to be weighed down with a competitor to numpy. Including a subset of numpy was considered in the past, but it's hard to decide on the right subset. In the end it was decided that numpy is too big to become a standard library. Given all the gyrations it has gone through I definitely believe this was the right decision.

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