Re: [Numpy-discussion] PEP 208 and upstreaming numpy

2013-06-26 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Todd wrote: > But wouldn't there be a benefit from integrating ndarrays directly into > the grammar like lists, tuples, and dictionaries? > That was never on the table. The benefit of ndarray literals is relatively tiny and does not justify a change to the gramm

Re: [Numpy-discussion] PEP 208 and upstreaming numpy

2013-06-26 Thread Todd
But wouldn't there be a benefit from integrating ndarrays directly into the grammar like lists, tuples, and dictionaries? On Jun 18, 2013 11:41 AM, "Robert Kern" wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Todd wrote: > > I see that the plan to merge old Numeric into the python standard library

Re: [Numpy-discussion] PEP 208 and upstreaming numpy

2013-06-18 Thread Robert Kern
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Todd wrote: > I see that the plan to merge old Numeric into the python standard library, > PEP 208, is listed as withdrawn, although no reasons are given as far as I > could see. > > Considering how mature Numpy has become, and how common it is as a > dependency f

[Numpy-discussion] PEP 208 and upstreaming numpy

2013-06-18 Thread Todd
I see that the plan to merge old Numeric into the python standard library, PEP 208, is listed as withdrawn, although no reasons are given as far as I could see. Considering how mature Numpy has become, and how common it is as a dependency for python packages, I was wondering if there were still pl