[Numpy-discussion] Community Poll: numarray default underflow handling == "ignore" ?

[Sebastian Haase]

Hi Alexander,
Thanks for your reply  and yes, I would be very interested to see more of
your "pretty print" code.
I am trying to put together all kinds of useful things to make python ( with
numarray and scipy) a possible replacement for Matlab...
I am not hoping for a similarly big documentation and help system, but just
the fact that it's free ( doesn't need to connect to a "license server"
every other minute)  and that it happily supports single-precision arrays
( not to mention memmap array !)   should make it interesting.
I know that I probably should use IPython, but I also run python embedded in
a wxWindows app and therefore use pyCrust.

Thanks again,
Sebastian Haase


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Schmolck" <a.schmolck at gmx.net>
To: "Sebastian Haase" <haase at msg.ucsf.edu>
Cc: <numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Community Poll: numarray default underflow
handling == "ignore" ?


> "Sebastian Haase" <haase at msg.ucsf.edu> writes:
>
> > My vote would be '-1' ( if that means "I prefer ignore")
> > I'm thinking of an INTERACTIVE platform - and so it would just "look
nicer"
> > without to many warnings.
>
> Well, it's only a default so you could always deactivate it (for all
> interactive sessions in your PYTHONSTARTUP if you wanted).
>
> >
> > Actually on that note: I read some time ago about pythons default for
> > printing floats:
> > >>> 0.1
> > 0.10000000000000001
> > >>> print 0.1
> > 0.1
> > >>> repr(0.1)
> > '0.10000000000000001'
> > >>> str(.1)
> > '0.1'
> >
> > Does anyone here have an update on that ?
>
>
>
> > What I am especially interested in is when I have a list of (floating
point)
> > (x,y) positions and
> > then typing in the var-name and getting all these ugly numbers is still
very
> > frustration for me ;-)
>
> You can customize python's interactive printing behavior any way you like
(in
> your PYTHONSTARTUP). Here is an example from my old ~/.pythonrc.py
(nowadays I
> almost exclusively use ipython).
>
> import pprint
> PRETTY_PRINT=1
> _normal_displayhook = sys.displayhook
> def _my_displayhook(object):
>     if PRETTY_PRINT:
>         # don't bore us with None
>         if object is not None:
>             pprint.pprint(object)
>     else:
>         _normal_displayhook(object)
> sys.displayhook = _my_displayhook
>
> You could add something to the above to achieve the floating point (or
list)
> formating you desire (``if type(object) is float:...).
>
> Since I am a heavy interactive user and found the default floating
formating
> of arrays somewhat clumsy for interactive work, I also wrote some more
> fanciful formatting code for my Numeric/numarray compatible matrix class
that
> amongst other things offers a number of formating options, including
matlab
> style. I found that this made my life much easier.
>
> Thus:
>
> >>> a
> array([[-9.90000000e+01,  -9.72817182e+01,
 0.00000000e+00,  -7.99144631e+01],
>        [-4.54018500e+01,   4.84131591e+01,   3.03428793e+02,
9.96633158e+02],
>        [2.88095799e+03,   8.00308393e+03,   2.19264658e+04,
5.97741417e+04]])
> >>> m = matrix(a)
> >>> m
> matrix('''
> 1.0E+04 *
>
>   -0.00990   -0.00973    0.00000   -0.00799
>   -0.00454    0.00484    0.03034    0.09966
>    0.28810    0.80031    2.19265    5.97741
> ''')
> >>> m.show('long')
> matrix('''
> 1.0E+04 *
>
>
> Columns 0 through 3
>
>   -0.009900000000000   -0.009728171817154    0.000000000000000
>   -0.004540184996686    0.004841315910258    0.030342879349274
>    0.288095798704173    0.800308392757538    2.192646579480672
>
> Columns 3 through 4
>
>   -0.007991446307681
>    0.099663315842846
>    5.977414171519782
> ''')
> >>> m.show('+')
> m.show('+')
> matrix('''
> -- -
> -+++
> ++++
> ''')
>
> etc.
>
> Adapting this to e.g. format Numeric arrays similarly via the display hook
> shouldn't be too hard, I can provide the code if you're interested.
>
>
> 'as
>
>
>
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