On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 09:08:57AM -0700, Christopher Barker via Python-ideas
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:50 AM Marco Sulla via Python-ideas <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Actually, this is the behaviour of ndarray with any dtype. And IMHO
> > ithis is quite.... terrible?
>
>
> I can see how you would think that. But the fact is that element-wise
> operations are very important to numpy.
If I could go back to 1995 or thereabouts when Python was first
starting, I would make a clear distinction between scalar and vector
operations, like Julia does.
Borrowing Julia's syntax:
a == b # compare a to b, returns True or False
a .== b # elementwise comparison
a*b # multiply a by b
a.*b # elementwise multiplication
--
Steven
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