David Abrahams abrahams at mediaone.net
Sat Dec 23 10:38:10 EST 2000

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"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
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>     x = x + y
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> could end up generating multimegabyte temp arrays while
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>     x += y
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> 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?

-Dave

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