Re: [Numpy-discussion] Should array_equal work with non-numeric types?

On Friday 02 March 2007 16:10:53 Christopher Barker wrote:

Hi all,

Should array_equal work with non-numeric types?

I'm all for that. I was regularly running into that problem when comparing object arrays or chararrays, that's why I modified assert_equal in the "maskedarray" version of testutils (scipy SVN).

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from maskedarray.testutils import assert_equal a = N.array(['a','b','c']) assert_equal(a,a.copy()) assert_equal(a,a[::-1]) AssertionError: Items are not equal: item=0

ACTUAL: 'a' DESIRED: 'c'