Should numpy.sqrt(-1) return 1j rather than nan?
Tim Hochberg
tim.hochberg at ieee.org
Wed Oct 11 18:31:21 EDT 2006
Travis Oliphant wrote:
> Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>
>>> This is user adjustable. You change the error mode to raise on
>>> 'invalid' instead of pass silently which is now the default.
>>>
>>> -Travis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Could you please explain how this adjustment is done, or point to the
>> relevant documentation.
>>
>>
>>
>
> numpy.sqrt(-1)
>
> old = seterr(invalid='raise')
> numpy.sqrt(-1) # should raise an error
>
> seterr(**old) # restores error-modes for current thread
> numpy.sqrt(-1)
>
>
With python 2.5 out now, perhaps it's time to come up with a with
statement context manager. Something like:
from __future__ import with_statement
import numpy
class errstate(object):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
self.kwargs = kwargs
def __enter__(self):
self.oldstate = numpy.seterr(**self.kwargs)
def __exit__(self, *exc_info):
numpy.seterr(**self.oldstate)
a = numpy.arange(10)
a/a # ignores divide by zero
with errstate(divide='raise'):
a/a # raise exception on divide by zer
# Would ignore divide by zero again if we got here.
-tim
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