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Tue Sep 4 00:59:30 CEST 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-September/074389.html

Ryan Freckleton wrote:
> At one time Guido mentioned adding a built-in product() function to
> cover some of the remaining use cases of the built-in reduce().

Speaking of such things, I was thinking the other day
that it might be useful to have somewhere in the stdlib
a full set of functions for doing elementwise operations
and reductions on the built-in array type.

This would make it possible for one to do efficient
bulk arithmetic when the need arises from time to time
without having to pull in a heavyweight dependency
such as Numeric or numpy.

--
Greg

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