Strange numpy.argmax behavior on object arrays in numpy 1.0.

Tom Denniston tom.denniston at alum.dartmouth.org
Mon Oct 30 11:32:20 EST 2006


Yes I definately agree about the latter!

On 10/29/06, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/29/06, Tom Denniston <tom.denniston at alum.dartmouth.org> wrote:
> >
> > Oh.  My mistake. I thought I had an array of 2 objects which were ints.
> > I actually had an array of one list of 2 ints.  It works properly if I
> > construct the array properly.
> >
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> I think there is actually a bug here:
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> In [61]: sort(array([3,2], dtype=object))
> Out[61]: array([2, 3], dtype=object)
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> In [62]: argmax(array([2,3], dtype=object))
> Out[62]: 0
>
> See, the sort works fine. I suspect argmax is using the wrong comparison
> function. I was just pointing out that sometimes it is hard to know what is
> going on with objects.
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> Chuck
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