[Python-Dev] Feedback from numerical/math community on PEP 225 (original) (raw)

Leif Walsh leif.walsh at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 02:21:53 CET 2008


On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:

a while back there was a discussion about new operators for the language, which ended in people mentioning that the status of PEP 225 was still undecided and that it was the most likely route to consider in this discussion. I offered to collect some feedback from the numerical and math/scientific computing communities and report back here.

I've only used a bit of numpy, but I have to say, the ~*/etc. syntax looks extremely ugly. There doesn't really seem to be a solution to this that isn't ugly in some way, but the op(a, b) version looks best to me (I also think a.op(b) is out of the question).

-- Cheers, Leif



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