On 24 Jun 2004, Todd Miller wrote:
OK, I see your point. I talked it over with Perry and he made a reasonable case for allowing comparisons with None (or any object). Perry argued that since None is a common default parameter value, it might simplify code to not have to add logic to handle that case.
If no one objects, I'll change numarray.strings so that comparison of a string array with any object not convertible to a string array results in an array of False values.
Any objections?
Hmm, before you do that you might look at this:
>>> import numarray >>> b = numarray.zeros(10) >>> b==0 array([1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], type=Bool) >>> b==None 0
So comparing numeric arrays to None returns a scalar false value since the variable b is not None.
I figure that the behavior of comparisons to None for string arrays and numeric arrays ought to be consistent. I don't know which is preferred... Rick