[Python-Dev] graphics maths types in python core? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 5 00:00:36 CEST 2009

C. Titus Brown wrote:

we're having a discussion over on the GSoC mailing list about basic math types, and I was wondering if there is any history that we should be aware of in python-dev.

Something I've suggested before is to provide a set of functions for doing elementwise arithmetic operations on objects that support the new buffer protocol.

Together with a multidimensional version of the standard array.array type, this would provide a kind of "numpy lite" that you could use to build reasonably efficient vector and matrix types with no external dependencies.

By making these functions that operate through the buffer protocol rather than special types, they would be much more flexible and interoperate with other libraries very well.

-- Greg

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