[Numpy-discussion] NotImplementedType should be an exception

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Travis E. Oliphant <oliphant at enthought.com>
wrote:

> Charles R Harris wrote:
> > Shouldn't this raise an NotImplementedError exception?
> >
> > In [7]: type(remainder(complex192(1), complex192(1)))
> > Out[7]: <type 'NotImplementedType'>
> I'm not sure if it is relevant in this case but we do need to keep in
> mind that Python uses the NotImplementedType as a signal to hand off the
> calculation to the other object in a binary operation.
>
> If we change this here we may affect that behavior, unintentionally.
>

It doesn't change the behavior of any of the ufuncs with array/array
arguments. I need to write up comprehensive tests for the combinations of
array/scalars and scalars,scalars, but there don't seem to be problems there
either. Can I also suggest that we not promote arrays of numeric types to
arrays of objects? Is there some way of preventing this?

Chuck
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