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Re: Possible PEP - two dimensional arrays?

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Possible PEP - two dimensional arrays?
Date 2016-06-07 17:28 -0700
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Harrison Chudleigh <harrison.chudleigh1@education.nsw.gov.au> writes:
> Currently, the closest thing Python has to a 2D array is a dictionary
> containing lists.

Tuples work fine:
  d = {}
  d[2,3] = 5  # etc...

> Is this idea PEPable?

I don't think it would get any traction.  If you're doing something
numerical that needs 2d arrays, numpy supports them.  Actually, looking
at your application, numpy might be what you want.

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Possible PEP - two dimensional arrays? Harrison Chudleigh <harrison.chudleigh1@education.nsw.gov.au> - 2016-06-08 10:17 +1000
  Re: Possible PEP - two dimensional arrays? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-06-07 17:28 -0700
  Re: Possible PEP - two dimensional arrays? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2016-06-07 17:38 -0700
  Re: Possible PEP - two dimensional arrays? Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-06-08 00:45 +0000

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