Numerical Python Bug ?

Uwe Schmitt uwe at rocksport.de
Wed Nov 7 12:48:25 EST 2001


Hi,

during a *large computation* I get problems with vectors / arrays:

     print sp

delivers

    [ 100, 50,]

and

     print 0.5*sp

yields

    [ 0, 0, ]

type(sp) is "array" and type(sp[0]) is "float".

What makes me wonder is the output format. "print sp" should give

    [ 100., 50. ]

which is different from my result above...

Further: if I use

     print 1/2.0*sp

i get the correct result 

     [50, 25,]

Is there a bug in NumPy or Python respectively ???

Last but not least: If I use 

     alpha=0.5
     print alpha

I get 0.0 as output !!!

One remark: all the behaviour above does not happen if I enter some vectors
manually...

Yours, Uwe.

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