Travis Oliphant wrote: > Sebastian Haase wrote: >> On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:28, Travis Oliphant wrote: >> >> Are you saying the ufunc-rules would convert "int32-float32" to float64 >> and >> hence make my code "just work" !? >> > Yes. That's what I'm saying (but you would get float64 out --- but if > you didn't want that then you would have to be specific). > >> And why are there two sets of rules ? >> > Because there are two modules (multiarray and umath) where the > functionality is implemented. > >> Are the Numeric rules used at many places ? >> > Not that many. I did abstract the notion to a C-API: > PyArray_ConvertToCommonType and implemented the > scalars-don't-cause-upcasting part of the ufunc rules in that code. > But, I followed the old-style Numeric coercion rules for the rest of it > (because I was adapting Numeric). > > Right now, unless there are strong objections, I'm leaning to changing > that so that the same coercion rules are used whenever a common type is > needed.
If you mean keeping the ufunc rules (which seem more liberal, fix my problem ;-) and might make using float32 in general more painless) - I would be all for it ... simplifying is always good in the long term ... Cheers, Sebastian > > It would not be that difficult of a change. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
