[Numpy-discussion] using assertEqual in unittest to test two np.ndarray?

[Pierre GM]

On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Grissiom wrote:
>> I know I should use array_equal to test two arrays
>
> Not answering your question, but I hadn't known about array_equal, so
> when I saw this, I thought: great! I can get rid of a bunch of ugly  
> code
> in my tests. However, it doesn't work as I would like for NaNs:

Chris, have you tried assert_equal redefined in numpy.ma.testutils ?  
It was deisgned for masked arrays, but automatically deals with NaNs
 >>> from numpy.ma.testutils import assert_equal
 >>> a = np.array([1,2,np.nan,4])
 >>> assert_equal(a,a)