On 9/19/06, A. M. Archibald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, mergesort can be adapted without a lot of work. Could be used to sort masked arrays too, not that I know why anyone would want that, but then again, I haven't used masked arrays.
Agreed, throwing some sort of error still seems the simplest thing to do.
On 19/09/06, Tim Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm still somewhat mystified by the desire to move the nans to one end
> of the sorted object. I see two scenarios:
It's mostly to have something to do with them other than throw an
exception. Leaving them in place while the rest of the array is
reshuffled requires a lot of work and isn't particularly better. I
mostly presented it as an alternative to throwing an exception.
Throwing a Python exception now seems like the most reasonable idea.
Well, mergesort can be adapted without a lot of work. Could be used to sort masked arrays too, not that I know why anyone would want that, but then again, I haven't used masked arrays.
Agreed, throwing some sort of error still seems the simplest thing to do.
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