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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Python CPU
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:59:09 +1200
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Terry Reedy wrote:
> So a 
> small extension to array with .map, .filter, .reduce, and a wrapper 
> class would be more useful than I thought.

Also useful would be some functions for doing elementwise
operations between arrays. Sometimes you'd like to just do
a bit of vector arithmetic, and pulling in the whole of
numpy as a dependency seems like overkill.

-- 
Greg