On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 01:15:46PM +0100, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 08:12, Jacco van Dorp <j.van.d...@deonet.nl> wrote: > > > > Op ma 27 aug. 2018 om 23:18 schreef James Lu <jam...@gmail.com>: > >> > >> > As Matthew points out, you could use numpy.array. Or code your own > >> > class, by providing __add__ and __iadd__ methods. > >> > >> I could, but I don't think that justifies not having this functionality in > >> python > >> standard. From the language experience perspective, numpy is often a > >> pain to install on most systems. > > Numpy is easy to install: > > $ pip install numpy
[steve@ando ~]$ pip install numpy Collecting numpy /usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:315: SNIMissingWarning: An HTTPS request has been made, but the SNI (Subject Name Indication) extension to TLS is not available on this platform. This may cause the server to present an incorrect TLS certificate, which can cause validation failures. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#snimissingwarning. SNIMissingWarning Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/numpy/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:645) - skipping Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement numpy (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for numpy I'm sure pip is great, but honestly I've never been able to get it to work reliably, ever, on four different machines using four different Linux distros. In any case, the answer "just use Numpy" isn't really relevant to the question about adding new syntax. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/