[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > However, I'm designing another library for > > > managing multi-dimensional arrays of data. Its purpose is similiar to > > > that of a spreadsheet - analyze data and preserve the relations between > > > a source of a calculation and its destination. > > > > Sounds interesting. Will it be related at all to OLAP or the > > Multi-Dimensional eXpressions language > > (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms145506.aspx) ? > > > Thanks for the reference! I didn't know about any of these. It will > probably be interesting to learn from them. From a brief look at OLAP > in wikipedia, it may have similarities to OLAP. I don't think it will > be related to Microsoft's language, because the language will simply by > Python, hopefully making it very easy to do whatever you like with the > data.
Glad it helped, I thought you were already familiar withe these. As for MDX, I didn't mean you should use it instead of python or implement it at the syntax level, but whether you consider an API with similar concepts. Given your description below, I think you should by all means take a look at MDX focusing on the concepts (datacubes, dimensions, hierarchies, levels, measures, etc.) and the functions, not its syntax. Here's a decent manual I found online http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/91pdf/sasdoc_91/olap_mdx_7002.pdf. Regards, George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
