On 2015/03/14 1:02 PM, John Kirkham wrote:

The sample case of the issue ( https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5558 ) is shown below. A proposal to address this behavior can be found here ( https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/5580 ). Please give me your feedback.

I tried to change the mask of `a` through a subindexed view, but was unable. Using this setup I can reproduce this in the 1.9.1 version of NumPy.

import numpy as np

a = np.arange(6).reshape(2,3) a = np.ma.masked_array(a, mask=np.ma.getmaskarray(a), shrink=False)

b = a[1:2,1:2]

c = np.zeros(b.shape, b.dtype) c = np.ma.masked_array(c, mask=np.ma.getmaskarray(c), shrink=False) c[:] = np.ma.masked

This yields what one would expect for `a`, `b`, and `c` (seen below).

masked_array(data = [[0 1 2] [3 4 5]], mask = [[False False False] [False False False]], fill_value = 999999)

masked_array(data = [[4]], mask = [[False]], fill_value = 999999)

masked_array(data = [[--]], mask = [[ True]], fill_value = 999999)

Now, it would seem reasonable that to copy data into `b` from `c` one can use `__setitem__` (seen below).

b[:] = c

This results in new data and mask for `b`.

masked_array(data = [[--]], mask = [[ True]], fill_value = 999999)

This should, in turn, change `a`. However, the mask of `a` remains unchanged (seen below).

masked_array(data = [[0 1 2] [3 0 5]], mask = [[False False False] [False False False]], fill_value = 999999)

I agree that this behavior is wrong. A related oddity is this: In [24]: a = np.arange(6).reshape(2,3) In [25]: a = np.ma.array(a, mask=np.ma.getmaskarray(a), shrink=False) In [27]: a.sharedmask True In [28]: a.unshare_mask() In [30]: b = a[1:2, 1:2] In [31]: b[:] = np.ma.masked In [32]: b.sharedmask False In [33]: a masked_array(data = [[0 1 2] [3 -- 5]], mask = [[False False False] [False True False]], fill_value = 999999) It looks like the sharedmask property simply is not being set and interpreted correctly--a freshly initialized array has sharedmask True; and after setting it to False, changing the mask of a new view *does* change the mask in the original. Eric

Best, John

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