On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 01:45:17AM +0000, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > They do include much more than we need so I'd agree that Anaconda is a > nuclear reactor. The things I want from it are not though. Numpy is > not a nuclear reactor: at it's core it's just providing a > multidimensional array.
And a metric tonne of functions in linear algebra, root finding, special functions, polynomials, statistics, generation of random numbers, datetime calculations, FFTs, interfacing with C, and including *eight* different specialist variations of sorting alone. Just because some people don't use the entire output of the nuclear reactor, doesn't mean it isn't one. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com