[Numpy-discussion] Warnings in numpy.ma.test()

[Pierre GM]

On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Darren Dale wrote:
> 
> I started thinking about a third method called __input_prepare__ that
> would be called on the way into the ufunc, which would allow you to
> intercept the input and pass a somehow modified copy back to the
> ufunc. The total flow would be:
> 
> 1) Call myufunc(x, y[, z])
> 2) myufunc calls ?.__input_prepare__(myufunc, x, y), which returns x',
> y' (or simply passes through x,y by default)
> 3) myufunc creates the output array z (if not specified) and calls
> ?.__array_prepare__(z, (myufunc, x, y, ...))
> 4) myufunc finally gets around to performing the calculation
> 5) myufunc calls ?.__array_wrap__(z, (myufunc, x, y, ...)) and returns
> the result to the caller
> 
> Is this general enough for your use case? I haven't tried to think
> about how to change some global state at one point and change it back
> at another, that seems like a bad idea and difficult to support.


Sounds like a good plan. If we could find a way to merge the first two (__input_prepare__ and __array_prepare__), that'd be ideal.