[Numpy-discussion] String (and unicode) comparisons and per-thread error handling fixed

[Tim Hochberg]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

>
> String comparisons were added last week.  Today, I added per-thread 
> error handling to NumPy.  There is 1 more enhancement (scalar math) 
> prior to 0.9.8 release --- but it will probably take 1-2 weeks.

Oops!  I'm about 2/3 done doing this one too. I think I'll go ahead and 
finish mine up and see how our approaches stack up performance wise and 
see if there's any of mine that's useful to roll into yours.

-tim

>
> The new error handling means that the three-scope system is gone.  
> Now, there is only one per-Python-thread global scope for error 
> handling.  If you change the error handling it will affect all 
> ufuncs.   Because of this, the seterr function now returns an object 
> with the old error-handling information.  This object must be passed 
> to umath.seterrobj() in order to restore the error handling.
>
> -Travis
>
>
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