[Numpy-discussion] timedelta64 remainder behavior with div by 0
Stefan van der Walt
stefanv at berkeley.edu
Tue Jan 8 13:05:22 EST 2019
On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 09:57:03 -0800, Tyler Reddy wrote:
> np.timedelta64(5) % np.timedelta64(0) -> numpy.timedelta64(0)
>
> In contrast, np.float64(1) % np.float64(0) -> nan
>
> There's a suggestion that we should switch to returning NaT for the
> timedelta64 case for consistency, and that this probably isn't too harmful
> given how recent these additions are.
That seems like a reasonable change to me; one could probably consider the
previous behavior a bug?
Stéfan
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