[Numpy-discussion] Assigning complex values to a real array
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 05:18:42 EST 2009
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 04:10, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> 2009/3/7 Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>:
>> In [5]: z = zeros(3, int)
>>
>> In [6]: z[1] = 1.5
>>
>> In [7]: z
>> Out[7]: array([0, 1, 0])
>
> Blind moment, sorry. So, what is your take -- should this kind of
> thing pass silently?
Downcasting data is a necessary operation sometimes. We explicitly
made a choice a long time ago to allow this.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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