On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 14:35, Avi Gross via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > But with numpy and more available anyway, it may not be necessary to reinvent > much of that. I was just wondering if it ever made sense to simply include it > in the base python, perhaps as a second executable with a name like pythonn > to signify that it is more numeric. So if you run that, you know you do not > need to add an assortment of modules. I keep seeing programs that just > automatically add numpy and pandas and various graphic modules and other > scientific and machine learning modules. Of course not everyone needs or even > wants this. Many simply use base Python techniques even if they are low for > larger amounts of data. >
How would that be different from getting one of the numeric/scientific distributions of Python? Why should it be a different Python executable?!? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list