Assign NaN, get zero

[Charles R Harris]

On 11/11/06, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/11/06, Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> > NaN (or inf) is a floating point number, so seeing a zero in integer
> > representation seems correct:
> >
> > In [2]: int(N.nan)
> > Out[2]: 0L
> >
>
> Just to learn myself: Why int(N.nan) should be 0? Is it C behavior?


In [1]: int32(0)/int32(0)
Warning: divide by zero encountered in long_scalars
Out[1]: 0

In [2]: float32(0)/float32(0)
Out[2]: nan

In [3]: int(nan)
Out[3]: 0L

I think it was just a default for numpy. Hmmm, numpy now warns on integer
division by zero, didn't used to.  Looks like a warning should also be
raised when casting nan to integer. It is probably a small bug not to. I
also suspect int(nan) should return a normal python zero, not 0L.

Chuck
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