[SciPy-user] Boolean Algebra

[Alan G Isaac]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Michael Hearne apparently wrote:
> I actually can't find any decent on-line tutorials 
> describing this, but booleans in Python are not done using 
> "&" and "|" symbols, but the words "and" and "or". 

This might not be the best answer to the OP's question.
See below.  Note that numpy's boolean matrices also
behavior very nicely.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac


>>> x= numpy.random.random((10,))
>>> y= numpy.random.random((10,))
>>> z1=x>0.1
>>> z2=x<0.2
>>> z1|z2
array([True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True], dtype=bool)
>>> z1 & z2
array([True, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False], dty
pe=bool)
>>> z1 or z2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous.
 Use a.any() or a.all()
>>>