[SciPy-user] arraysetops & string arrays

[David Warde-Farley]

Hi there,

I noticed that setdiff1d() fails on string arrays.  (numpy 1.0.3.1).  
There's nothing in the documentation that suggests it's for numeric  
dtypes only; should there be, or is this a bug?

The problem appears to be the line

tt = nm.concatenate( (zlike( ar1 ), zlike( ar2 ) + 1) )

where zlike() is returning an array of empty strings, and thus adding  
1 is causing problems. I tried modifying it to cast to int32 without  
much success.

David