Talk:Comparison of programming languages (array)

Vectorized Operations in Python

Are you sure that native python supports vectorized operations? I am under the impression that this requires an external set of packages such as numpy. If so, then "yes" in the vectorized column is a bit misleading and a footnote should be added explaining this.

I did a quick test in python2.4:

 Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr  5 2007, 20:11:18) 
 [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
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 >>> x = [1,2,3]
 >>> y = [4,5,6];
 >>> x+y;
 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

So it appears that native python does not provide such support.