[Numpy-discussion] Fwd: fill() function does not work.

[Frank Lagor]

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From: Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] fill() function does not work.
To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion at scipy.org>


>From the docstring:

a.fill(value) -> None. Fill the array with the scalar value.

The method modifies the array, but does not return it.

Matthieu

2008/11/18 frank wang <f.yw at hotmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> My numpy is 1.2.1 and python is 2.5.2.
>
> In python, I did:
>
> from numpy import *
> x=array([1,2,3])
> z=x.fill(x)
> print z
> None
>
> z should be filled with zero. I do not knwo why I got None. Can anyone help
> me on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
>
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For additional clarity:

you write x.fill(x), but this is not what you want because this would
take the first entry in x and fill the remainder of x with it.
Instead, you want x.fill(0).  Alternately, the function zeros is
useful.

-Frank