Support @ for matrix multiplication #525
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The meaning of
*is ambiguous: Some libraries such as NumPy use it for elementwise multiplication, others for matrix multiplication. Since Python3 and PEP465, there is a new operator@for matrix multiplication.This pull request adds
@as an alias for*and includes some workarounds so that the tests using@can be skipped underPython 2Python <= 3.4, where it is a syntax error. (Not sure how long you plan to support Python 2, which has reached its end-of-life, see https://python3statement.org/ ).