[Numpy-discussion] Casting Bug or a "Feature"?

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Patrick Marsh
<patrickmarshwx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, everyone for chiming in.  Now that I know this behavior exists, I
> can explicitly prevent it in my code. However, it would be nice if a warning
> or something was generated to alert users about the inconsistency between
> var += ... and var = var + ...

Since I also got bitten by this recently in my code, I fully agree.
I could live with an exception for lossy down casting in this case.

Josef

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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> This is separate from the scalar casting thing. This is a disguised
>> version of the discussion about what we should do with implicit casts caused
>> by assignment:
>>   into_array[i] = 0.5
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>> Traditionally numpy just happily casts this stuff, possibly mangling data
>> in the process, and this has caused many actual bugs in user code. In 1.6
>> some of these assignments cause errors, but we reverted this in 1.7 because
>> this was also breaking things. Supposedly we also deprecated these at the
>> same time, with an eye towards making them errors eventually, but I'm not
>> sure we did this properly, and our carrying rules need revisiting in any
>> case.
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>> (Sorry for lack of links to earlier discussion; traveling and on my
>> phone.)
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>> -n
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>> On 16 Jan 2013 16:42, "Chris Barker - NOAA Federal"
>> <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
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>>> Patrick,
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>>> Not a bug but is it a mis-feature?
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>>> See the recent thread: "Do we want scalar casting to behave as it does
>>> at the moment"
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>>> In short, this is an complex issue with no easy answer...
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>>> -Chris
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