[SciPy-dev] "item in array" currently unsupported

[Travis Oliphant]

Ed Schofield wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>The ability to use the test "item in array" seems to be a casualty from
>the recent change to newcore to raise an exception when interpreting
>arrays as truth values.  The old Numeric would allow this:
>  
>
You are right.  The contains function was using PyObject_RichCompareBool 
which relies on the "truth" value of the result.   This is easily 
changed and I will do it.

-Travis