[SciPy-Dev] warnings in scipy.stats.entropy

[Pauli Virtanen]

Skipper Seabold <jsseabold <at> gmail.com> writes:
[clip]
> Currently in scipy.stats.entropy if you are not ignoring them you will
> see warnings when the function is given a probability of zero even
> though the case of zero is specifically handled in the function.
> Rightly or wrongly this makes me cringe. What do people think about
> fixing this by using seterr explicitly in the function or masking the
> zeros. 

I'd rather add `xlogy(x, y) = x*log(y)` that treats the case `x==0` specially to
scipy.special, than kludge around the issue by masking or turning warnings off.

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Pauli Virtanen