Usage of NotImplemented in Numexpr

Ivan Vilata i Balaguer ivilata at carabos.com
Mon Oct 16 06:47:33 EDT 2006


Looking at the ``ophelper()`` decorator in the ``expressions`` module of
Numexpr, I see the following code is used to check/replace arguments of
operators::

    for i, x in enumerate(args):
        if isConstant(x):
            args[i] = x = ConstantNode(x)
        if not isinstance(x, ExpressionNode):
            return NotImplemented

This looks like operations on unknown kinds of arguments use the default
Python behaviour.  However, this yields some strange results:

>>> import numpy
>>> a = numpy.array([1,1,1])
>>> import numexpr
>>> numexpr.evaluate('a < [0,0,0]')
array(True, dtype=bool)

This is odd because the comparison was not element-wise, but object-wise
(between a VariableNode and an -unsupported- python list).  Since
Numexpr only understands scalar constants, variables and some functions
(the last two are expression nodes), it seems more correct to me to
simply forbid unsupported objects to avoid surprises, so the previous
code may look like this::

    for i, x in enumerate(args):
        if isConstant(x):
            args[i] = ConstantNode(x)
        elif not isinstance(x, ExpressionNode):
            raise TypeError( "unsupported object type: %s",
                             type(x) )

Do you think this is OK, or am I wrong or missing something?

Cheers,

::

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