[Numpy-discussion] Numeric 24.0

[Travis Oliphant]

Alexander Schmolck wrote:

>Travis Oliphant <oliphant at ee.byu.edu> writes:
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>>I've released Numeric 24.0 as a beta (2nd version) release.  Right now it's
>>just a tar file.
>>
>>Please find any bugs.  I'll wait a week or two and release a final version
>>unless I hear reports of problems.
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>I suspect some other problems I haven't tried to track down yet are due to
>this:
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>    >>> a = num.array([[1],[2],[3]])
>    >>> ~(a==a)
>    array([[-2],
>           [-2],
>           [-2]])
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What is wrong with this?  ~ is bit-wise not and gives the correct 
answer, here.

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>Object array comparisons still produce haphazard behaviour:
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>    >>> a = num.array(["ab", "cd", "efg"], 'O')
>    >>> a == 'ab'
>    0
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You are mixing Object arrays and character arrays here and expecting too 
much.    String arrays in Numeric and their relationship with object 
arrays have never been too useful.    You need to be explicit  about how 
'ab' is going to be interpreted and do

a == array('ab','O')  to get what you were probably expecting. 

>Finally -- not necessarily a bug, but a change of behaviour that seems undocumented (I'm
>pretty sure this used to give a float array as return value):
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>    >>> num.zeros((2.0,))
>    *** TypeError: an integer is required
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>'as
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I don't think this worked as you think it did (I looked at Numeric 21.3). 

num.zeros(2.0)  works  but it shouldn't.  This is a bug that I'll fix.

Shapes should be integers, not floats.  If this was not checked before 
than that was a bug.   It looks like it's always been checked 
differently for single-element tuples and scalars


So, in short,  I see only one small bug here.  Thanks for testing things 
out.

-Travis