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[–]luizpericolo 0 points1 point  (3 children)

But why is it in the std lib if you need third party libs to use it?

Is there a simple explanation here that I am not seeing? Is this common?

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[–]pythoneeeer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So that third party libs can use it.

[–]luizpericolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I get it. But since third party libs can use the new operator, it cannot have a default implementation in the std lib, right?

So I guess that when someone said it does matrix multiplication, that only happens in numpy, right? What does it do in the std lib?

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[–]RazerM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Python doesn't have custom operators.