11.02.2014 00:17, Matthew Brett kirjoitti:
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> That is a very convincing argument.
>
> What would be the problems (apart from code compatibility) in making
> scipy.sparse use the ndarray semantics?
I'd estimate the effort it would take to convert scipy.sparse to ndarray
semantics is about a couple of afternoon hacks (normal, not
Ipython-size), so it should be doable.
Also, a shorthand for right-multiplication is probably necessary, as
A.T.dot(B.T).T
is unwieldy.
As far as backward compatibility goes: change from * to .dot would break
everyone's code. I suspect the rest of the changes have smaller impacts.
The code breakage is such that I don't think it can be easily done by
changing the behavior of "csr_matrix". I've previously proposed adding
csr_array et al., and deprecating csr_matrix et al.. Not sure if the
*_matrix can ever be removed, but it would be useful to point new users
to use the interface with the ndarray convention.
--
Pauli Virtanen
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