[Numpy-discussion] String array equality test does not broadcast

[Travis Oliphant]

Tim Hochberg wrote:

> Travis Oliphant wrote:
>
>> Russel Howe wrote:
>>
>>> I am converting some numarray code to numpy and I noticed this 
>>> behavior:
>>>
>>> >>> from numpy import *
>>> >>> sta=array(['abc', 'def', 'ghi'])
>>> >>> stb=array(['abc', 'jkl', 'ghi'])
>>> >>> sta==stb
>>> False
>>>
>>> I expected the same as this:
>>> >>> a1=array([1,2,3])
>>> >>> a2=array([1,4,3])
>>> >>> a1==a2
>>> array([True, False, True], dtype=bool)
>>>
>>> I am trying to figure out how to fix this now...
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>> Equality testing on string arrays does not work (equality testing 
>> uses ufuncs internally which are not supported generally for flexible 
>> arrays).   You must use chararray's.
>
>
> Should string arrays then perhaps raise an exception here to keep 
> people out of trouble?


Probably.  The equal (not_equal) rich comparison code has some left-over 
stuff from Numeric which is implemented so that if the ufunc equal 
(not_equal) failed False (True) was returned.

I did not special-case the string arrays in this code.

-Travis

>
> -tim
>
>
>>
>> Thus,
>>
>> sta.view(chararray) == stb.view(chararray)
>>
>> Or create chararray's from the beginning:
>>
>> sta = char.array(['abc','def','ghi'])
>> stb = char.array(['abc','jkl','ghi'])
>>
>> Char arrays are a special subclass of the ndarray that give arrays 
>> all the methods of strings (and unicode) elements and allow (rich) 
>> comparison operations.
>>
>> -Travis
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