On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 17:42, Charles R Harris
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charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I "fixed" ticket #754, but it leads to a ton of problems. The original
> discussion is here. The problems that arise come from conversion to
> different types.
>
> In [26]: a
> Out[26]: array([ Inf, -Inf, NaN, 0., 3., -3.])
>
> In [27]: sign(a).astype(int)
> Out[27]:
> array([ 1, -1, -2147483648, 0, 1,
> -1])
>
> In [28]: sign(a).astype(bool)
> Out[28]: array([ True, True, True, False, True, True], dtype=bool)
>
> In [29]: sign(a)
> Out[29]: array([ 1., -1., NaN, 0., 1., -1.])
>
> In [30]: bool(NaN)
> Out[30]: True
>
> So there are problems with at minimum the following.
>
> 1) The way NaN is converted to bool. I think it should be False.
It's not really our choice. That's Python's bool(). For the things