[Numpy-discussion] Dates and times and Datetime64 (again)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <ndarray at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>> It seems this committee of two has come to a consensus on naive -- and
>> you're probably right, raise an exception if there is a time zone specifier.
>
>
> Count me as +1 on naive, but consider converting garbage (including strings
> with trailing Z) to NaT.

That's not how we handle other types, e.g.:

In [5]: a = np.zeros(1, dtype=float)

In [6]: a[0] = "garbage"
ValueError: could not convert string to float: garbage

(Cf, "Errors should never pass silently".) Any reason why datetime64
should be different?

-n

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Nathaniel J. Smith
Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh
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