[Numpy-discussion] weird searchsorted behavior for unicode array

[Thouis (Ray) Jones]

I am seeing some very strange behavior searching a unicode array.  The
attached code outputs the following:
UNICODE
Is sorted: True
Search sorted by iteration, left: [0, 1, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 8, 8, 10, 10,
12, 12, 13]
Search sorted by iteration, right: [0, 2, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 8, 8, 10, 10,
12, 12, 13]
Search sorted by indexing, left: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13]
Search sorted by indexing, right: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 13]
Search sorted by indexing with copy, left: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 13]
Search sorted by indexing with copy, right: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13]

If I remove the first print, it produces:
Is sorted: True
Search sorted by iteration, left: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
Search sorted by iteration, right: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13]
Search sorted by indexing, left: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13]
Search sorted by indexing, right: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 13]
Search sorted by indexing with copy, left: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
Search sorted by indexing with copy, right: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]

Neither answer is correct, since left and right should be offset by 1
when searching for an element in the array, by my reading of the docs.

This is numpy 1.6.1 on OSX 10.6, python 2.7

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Ray Jones
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