On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:02:21 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:53:35 +0000, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Since I don't do any numerical stuff with the arrays, Numpy doesn't seem >> to be a good choice. I think this is an argument to add real arrays to >> Python. > > Guido's time machine strikes again: > > import array > > > By the way, I'm not exactly sure how you go from "I don't do numerical > calculations on numpy arrays" to "therefore Python should have arrays".
I should have been more clear. I meant multi-dimensional arrays (2D, at least) Numpy is fine if I do math with matrices (without loops in python). Given that I don't like to use the old FORTRAN way (when "dynamic" arrays are passed to functions) of indexing a 2-d array I would need a MACRO or an INLINED function in Python or something like a META-compiler phase transforming def access2d(v,i,j,dim1) : # doesn't work on the l.h.s. return v[i*dim1+j] access2d(v,i,j,dim1) = 7 # at compile time, please to v[i*dim1+j]= 7 # this, by itself, is considered ugly (the FORTRAN way) Thanks for the discussion, Helmut -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list