Hi, Following Travis's suggestion below, I would like to suggest that the following definitions be depreciated or removed in this forthcoming release:
numpy.Inf numpy.Infinity numpy.infty numpy.PINF numpy.NAN numpy.NaN ...
While this is being discussed, what about the "representation" of nan's an infinities produced by repr in various forms? It is particularly annoying when the repr of simple numeric types cannot be evaluated. These include:
'infj' == repr(complex(0,inf)) 'nanj' == repr(complex(0,nan)) 'infnanj' == repr(complex(inf,nan)) 'nannanj' == repr(complex(nan,nan))
It seems that perhaps infj and nanj should be defined symbols. I am not sure why a + does not get inserted before nan.
In addition, the default infstr and nanstr printing options should also be changed to 'inf' and 'nan'.
Hello all, If I recall correctly, one reason for the plethora of infinity definitions (which had been mentioned previously on the list) was that the repr for some or all float/complex types was generated by code in the host OS, and not in numpy. As such, these reprs were different for different platforms. As there was a desire to ensure that reprs could always be evaluated, the various ways that inf and nan could be spit out by the host libs were all included. Has this been fixed now, so that repr(inf), (etc.) looks identical on all platforms? Zach