[SciPy-Dev] Ticket #995, All scipy.constants.constants functions "choke" on non-array sequence input

[Benjamin Root]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>
> wrote:
> >> The problem is that for example C2F is
> >>
> >> def C2F(C):
> >>     return 1.8 * C + 32
> >> So array_like (list, tuple...) does not work.
> >>
> >> What is the preferred solution?
> >>
> >> 1, Change the docs to say "scalar or array" and return a warning if C
> >> is not a scalar or array
> >> 2, Ad the ability to handle all array_like.
> >>
> > def C2F(C):
> >     return np.add(np.multilpy(1.8, C), 32)
> >
> > I think that accepts array-like and scaler and returns the same
>
> Or just C = np.asarray(C)
>
> This is quite often what is done.
>
> What about masked arrays?  Should np.asanyarray() be used?

Ben Root



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