[Numpy-discussion] "False" and "True" not singletons?

Christopher Barker Chris.Barker at noaa.gov
Tue Dec 30 17:17:30 EST 2008


Robert Kern wrote:
> Well, True and False are singletons,

I thought so.

> but numpy.any() and numpy.all()
> don't return bools. They return numpy.bool_s.

Is that a numpy scalar type?

This also begs the question: why don't they return regular old True and 
False?

-CHB




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