[Numpy-discussion] Numpy 'None' comparison FutureWarning
Demitri Muna
demitri.muna at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 17:10:03 EDT 2014
Hi,
I just encountered the following in my code:
FutureWarning: comparison to `None` will result in an elementwise object comparison in the future.
I'm very concerned about this. This is a very common programming pattern (lazy loading):
class A(object):
def __init__(self):
self._some_array = None
@property
def some_array(self):
if self._some_array == None:
# perform some expensive setup of array
return self._some_array
It seems to me that the new behavior will break this pattern. I think that redefining the "==" operator is a little too aggressive here. It strikes me as very nonstandard and not at all obvious to someone reading the code that the comparison is a very special case for numpy objects. Unless there's some aspect I'm missing here, I think an element-wise comparator should be more explicit.
Cheers,
Demitri
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Demitri Muna
Department of Astronomy
Le Ohio State University
http://trillianverse.org
http://scicoder.org
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