---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] np.histogramdd of empty data To: Nils Becker <n.becker@amolf.nl> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Nils Becker <n.becker@amolf.nl> wrote:
Hi Ralf,
I cloned numpy/master and played around a little.
when giving the bins explicitely, now histogram2d and histogramdd work as expected in all tests i tried.
However, some of the cases with missing bin specification appear somewhat inconsistent.
The first question is if creating arbitrary bins for empty data and empty bin specification is better than raising an Exception:
Specifically:
Bins of size 0 should give a meaningful error, I was just fixing that as part of #1788 in https://github.com/rgommers/numpy/tree/ticket-1788-histogramdd
numpy.histogram2d([],[],bins=[0,0])
(array([ 0., 0.]), array([ 0.]), array([ 0.]))
Now gives: ValueError: Element at index 0 in `bins` should be a positive integer.
numpy.histogram([],bins=0)
ValueError: zero-size array to minimum.reduce without identity
Now gives: ValueError: `bins` should be a positive integer.
so 1-d and 2-d behave not quite the same.
also, these work (although with arbitrary bin edges):
numpy.histogram2d([],[],bins=[1,1])
(array([ 0., 0.]), array([ 0., 1.]), array([ 0., 1.]))
numpy.histogram2d([],[],bins=[0,1])
(array([ 0., 0.]), array([ 0.]), array([ 0., 1.]))
while this raises an error:
numpy.histogram([],bins=1)
ValueError: zero-size array to minimum.reduce without identity
Now gives: (array([0]), array([ 0., 1.]))
another thing with non-empty data:
numpy.histogram([1],bins=1)
(array([1]), array([ 0.5, 1.5]))
That is the correct answer.
numpy.histogram([1],bins=0)
(array([], dtype=int64), array([ 0.5]))
Now gives: ValueError: `bins` should be a positive integer.
while
numpy.histogram2d([1],[1],bins=A)
ValueError: zero-size array to minimum.reduce without identity
(here A==[0,0] or A==[0,1] but not A==[1,1] which gives a result)
Same sensible errors now, telling you bins elements shouldn't be 0. Cheers, Ralf