[Matrix-SIG] Python crash when sort is given zero length list

Travis E. Oliphant Oliphant.Travis@mayo.edu
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 17:41:19 -0600


I'm running NumPy 1.3 on Linux libc6 and get a floating 
point exception when I try to sort a list with zero elements.  

Here is the session.

Anybody seen this and made the fix.

>>> from Numeric import sort
>>> sort([])
Floating point exception


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