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Nobody has mentioned array-api (and data-apis more generally), which is trying to standardize the way people interact with arrays across the Python ecosystem.

https://github.com/data-apis/array-api

https://data-apis.org/blog/announcing_the_consortium/




Sounds like a great idea, but difficult to achieve. The announcement blog post was almost 5 years ago, do you know maybe what the impact of this project has been in practice?


There are yearly releases of the standard https://data-apis.org/blog/ and I often see it ref'd on issues in individual libraries (numpy, pytorch)

See also funding from CZI (on the blog)

Subjectively I do find it helps with consistency -- and when things are not consistent, it's easier to discover what's different and why

edit: but I completely agree with this post and the follow-up from the same author on "dumbpy". At least at first blush, I need to read in more detail.




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