Neal Becker wrote: > I have watched numpy with interest for a long time. My own interest is to > possibly use the c-api to wrap c++ algorithms to use from python. > > One thing that has concerned me, and continues to concern me with this > proposal, is that it seems to suffer from a very fat interface. I > certainly have not studied the options in any depth, but my gut feeling is > that the interface is too fat and too complex. I wonder if it's possible > to avoid this. I wonder if this is an example of all the methods sinking > to the base class.
You've just described my number #1 concern with incorporating NumPy wholesale, and the reason I believe it would be nice to cherry-pick a couple of key components for the standard library, rather than adopting the whole thing. Travis has done a lot of work towards that goal (the latest result of which is this pre-PEP for describing the individual array elements in a way that is more flexible than the single character codes of the current array module). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com