Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-05-04 Thread David Goldsmith
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Pauli Virtanen p...@iki.fi wrote: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:12:07 -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: [clip] Here is a related ticket that proposes a more explicit alternative: adding a ``dot`` method to ndarray. http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1456 I kind of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-04-30 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Pauli Virtanen p...@iki.fi wrote: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:12:07 -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: [clip] Here is a related ticket that proposes a more explicit alternative: adding a ``dot`` method to ndarray. http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1456 I kind of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-04-30 Thread David Warde-Farley
Pauli Virtanen wrote: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:12:07 -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: [clip] Here is a related ticket that proposes a more explicit alternative: adding a ``dot`` method to ndarray. http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1456 I kind of like this idea. Simple, obvious, and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-04-30 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:30:31PM +, Pauli Virtanen wrote: a.dot(b.dot(c)) And here's an implementation: http://github.com/pv/numpy-work/commit/414429ce0bb0c4b7e780c4078c5ff71c113050b6 /me very happy. Gaël ___ NumPy-Discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-04-30 Thread Fernando Perez
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Pauli Virtanen p...@iki.fi wrote: I think I'm going to apply this, unless someone complains, as I don't see any downsides (except maybe adding one more to the huge list of methods ndarray already has). But one of the most badly needed ones, so run, don't walk

[Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-04-29 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:12:07 -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: [clip] Here is a related ticket that proposes a more explicit alternative: adding a ``dot`` method to ndarray. http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1456 I kind of like this idea. Simple, obvious, and leads to clear code:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-04-29 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, I kind of like this idea. Simple, obvious, and leads to clear code:        a.dot(b).dot(c) or in another multiplication order,        a.dot(b.dot(c)) And here's an implementation:         http://github.com/pv/numpy-work/commit/414429ce0bb0c4b7e780c4078c5ff71c113050b6 I think

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-04-29 Thread Travis Oliphant
On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:12:07 -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: [clip] Here is a related ticket that proposes a more explicit alternative: adding a ``dot`` method to ndarray. http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1456 I kind of like this idea.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding an ndarray.dot method

2010-04-29 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Pauli Virtanen p...@iki.fi wrote: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:12:07 -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: [clip] Here is a related ticket that proposes a more explicit alternative: adding a ``dot`` method to ndarray. http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1456 I kind of