[Numpy-discussion] Regression: in-place operations (possibly intentional)
Fri Sep 21 12:03:09 CDT 2012
On 21 Sep 2012 17:31, "Chris Barker" <email@example.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Nathaniel Smith <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote:
> > because a += b
> > really should be the same as a = a + b.
> I don't think that's the case - the inplace operator should be (and
> are) more than syntactic sugar -- they have a different meaning and
> use (in fact, I think they should't work at all for immutable, sbut i
> guess the common increment-a-counter use was too good to pass up)
> in the numpy case:
> a = a + b
> means "make a new array, from the result of adding a and b"
> a += b
> means "change a in place by adding b to it"
> In the first case, I'd expect the type of the result to be determined
> by both a and b -- casting rules.
> In the second case, a should certainly not be a different object, and
> should not have a new data buffer, therefor should not change type.
You're right of course. What I meant is that
a += b
should produce the same result as
a[...] = a + b
If we change the casting rule for the first one but not the second, though,
then these will produce different results if a is integer and b is float:
the first will produce an error, while the second will succeed, silently
discarding fractional parts.
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