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A Suggestion for Python Colon Syntax

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Sat Dec 23 12:30:38 EST 2000 
In article <CF316.26760$1t.879107 at typhoon.ne.mediaone.net>,
David Abrahams <abrahams at mediaone.net> wrote:
>"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
>news:mailman.977544967.21073.python-list at python.org...
>>
>> 2. The NumPy people had a real problem in that
>>     x = x + y
>> could end up generating multimegabyte temp arrays while
>>     x += y
>> need not.  That is, for them it wasn't "just another way" to write the
>> former; it offers crucially different semantics.
>
>Yes! Any chance of getting this capability for extension classes?

<blink>  Um, how do you think it works in NumPy?
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