[Numpy-discussion] What is the logical value of nan?
Wed Mar 11 13:19:01 CDT 2009
Charles R Harris wrote:
> Raising exceptions in ufuncs is going to take some work as the inner
> loops are void functions without any means of indicating an error.
> Exceptions also need to be thread safe. So I am not opposed but it is
> something for the future.
I just saw David Cournapeau's post regarding a NPY_NAN macro. As it uses
the IEEE754 binary format, at least NPY_NAN should be True in a boolean
context. So bool(nan) is True then.
And that's what happens now on my computer as well:
I don't like Python exception's raised inside ufuncs. In the future we
NumPy might add OpenMP support to ufuncs (multicore CPUs are getting
common), and Python exceptions would prevent that, or at least make it
difficult (cf. the GIL).
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