[SciPy-dev] Arrays as truth values?

[Travis Oliphant]

Steven H. Rogers wrote:

>OK.  I can't think of a really good use case for using an array as a truth 
>value.  I would argue though, that it would make sense for an array of zeros 
>to be False and an array with any non-zero values to be True.
>  
>
I agree this makes sense.  That's why it used to be the default 
behavior.   But you can already get that behavior with any(a).

There will be many though, I'm afraid, who think b or a ought to return 
element-wise like b | a does.  This is not possible in Python.  Raising 
an error will at least alert them to the problem which might otherwise 
give them misleading results.

-Travis