[Numpy-discussion] sort bug

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Thu Apr 26 02:34:07 EDT 2007


This code --

	adj = [ [eval(y) for y in x.split()] for x in infile ]
	val,vec = numpy.linalg.eig(adj)
	master = zip( val, vec.transpose() )
	master.sort()

*sometimes* gives this error:

	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "3work.py", line 14, in <module>
	    master.sort()
	ValueError: The truth value of an array with more
	than one element is ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()

What does sort() care about truth values?!

numpy.linalg.eig() sometimes returns complex values, which may not have 
a natural ordering, but I get this error (sometimes) even when it 
returns reals.

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