[Numpy-discussion] Why does np.nan{min, max} clobber my array mask?
Pierre GM
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Mon Feb 15 21:35:05 EST 2010
On Feb 15, 2010, at 8:51 PM, David Carmean wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:22:04PM -0500, Pierre GM wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm sorry, I can't follow you. Can you post a simpler self-contained example I can play with ?
>> Why using np.nanmin/max ? These functions are designed for ndarrays, to avoid using a masked array: can't you just use min/max on the masked array ?
>
> I was using np.nanmin/max because I did not yet understand how masked arrays worked; perhaps the
> docs for those methods need a note indicating that "If you can take the (small?) memory hit,
> use Masked Arrays instead". Now that I know different... I'm going to drop it unless you
> reall want to dig into it.
I'm curious. Can you post an excerpt of your array, so that I can check what goes wrong?
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