[MATRIX-SIG] umath.logical_blah vs normal python functions.

[David J. C. Beach]

Moore, Paul wrote:

> One advantage of an and/or which returns 1 or 0 is that you can play
> games with it, like multiply it by a constant. Consider
>
>    a * logical_and(a,b)
>
> which gives the same values as a where b is nonzero, but zero where b is
> zero. This is the sort of game that gets played in APL all the time....
> (OK, this isn't a very good example, but I can't make up a realistic
> case offhand).

 Is this the clear kind of programming style promoted by Python's designers?

Dave

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