On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Nadav Horesh apparently wrote: > > I would like to see a unification of matrices and arrays. > > I often do calculation which involve both array processing > > and linear algebra, and the current solution of having > > function like dot and inv is not aesthetic. Switching > > between array and matrix types (or using .A attribute of > > a matrix) is not convinient either. > > > Use ``asmatrix``. (Does not copy.) > > After that the only needed "unification" I have > encountered is that iteration over a matrix should > return arrays (not matrices). I believe this is > under consideration for 1.1.
The last I remember, we considered adding RowVector, ColumnVector and letting slices out of a matrix either be one of those or a matrix itself. I simply don't see a Matrix as a container of ndarrays (that's what ndarrays are for, right?). Regards Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
