[Numpy-discussion] Unpleasant behavior with poly1d and numpy scalar multiplication

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Charles R Harris
>> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The new polynomials don't have that problem.
>> >
>> > In [1]: from numpy.polynomial import Polynomial as Poly
>> >
>> > In [2]: p = Poly([1,2])
>>
>> Aha, great!  Many thanks, I can tell my students this, and just show
>> them the caveat of calling float(x) on any scalar they want to use
>> with the 'old' ones for now.
>>
>> I remember being excited about your work on the new Polys, but since
>> I'm teaching with stock 1.3,  I hadn't found them recently and just
>> forgot about them.  Excellent.
>>
>> One minor suggestion:  I think it would be useful to have the new
>> polys have some form of pretty-printing like the old ones.  It is
>> actually useful when working, to verify what one has at hand, to see
>> an expanded printout like the old ones do:
>>
>>
> I thought about that, but decided it was best left to a derived class, say
> PrettyPoly ;) Overriding __repr__ and __str__ is an example where
> inheritance makes sense.
>
>

Hmm, and on testing it looks like maybe "isinstance" should be replaced with
"type(s) is x" to avoid the left-right confusion when mixing derived classes
with the base class. Binary operators play havoc with inheritance.

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Chuck
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