On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 2:13 AM, <Martin.Gfeller@swisscom.com> wrote:
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> Dear all
>
> I have object array of arrays, which I compare element-wise to None in various places:
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> >>> a = numpy.array([numpy.arange(5),None,numpy.nan,numpy.arange(6),None],dtype=numpy.object)
> >>> a
> array([array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4]), None, nan, array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]), None], dtype=object)
> >>> numpy.equal(a,None)
> FutureWarning: comparison to `None` will result in an elementwise object comparison in the future.
>
>
> So far, I always ignored the warning, for lack of an idea how to resolve it.
>
> Now, with Numpy 1.13, I have to resolve the issue, because it fails with:
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> ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()
>
> It seem that the numpy.equal is applied to each inner array, returning a Boolean array for each element, which cannot be coerced to a single Boolean.
>
> The expression
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> >>> numpy.vectorize(operator.is_)(a,None)
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> gives the desired result, but feels a bit clumsy.

Wrap the clumsiness up in a documented, tested utility function with a descriptive name and use that function everywhere instead.

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Robert Kern