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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Apr 5 00:11:55 CEST 2009

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

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.

Again, I don't want to spoil the party, but multidimensional buffers are not implemented, and neither are buffers of anything other than single-byte data. Interested people should start with this, before jumping to the higher-level stuff.

Regards

Antoine.

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