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Tue Sep 4 16:38:58 CEST 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-September/074398.html

On 9/4/07, Steven H. Rogers <steve at shrogers.com> wrote:
> Concur.  Array processing would be a very practical addition to the
> standard library.  It's used extensively in engineering, finance, and
> the sciences.  It looks like they may find room in the OLPC XO for key
> subsets of NumPy and Matplotlib.  They want it both as a teaching
> resource and to optimize their software suite as a whole.  If they're
> successful, we'll have a lot of young pythoneers expecting this
> functionality.

I still don't see why the standard library needs to be weighed down
with a competitor to numpy. Including a subset of numpy was considered
in the past, but it's hard to decide on the right subset. In the end
it was decided that numpy is too big to become a standard library.
Given all the gyrations it has gone through I definitely believe this
was the right decision.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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