I am currently running numpy rc2 (I haven't tried your
reimplementation yet as I am still using python 2.3). I am wondering
whether the new maskedarray is able to handle construction of arrays
from masked scalar values (not sure if this is the correct term). I
ran across a situation recently when I was picking individual values
from a masked array, collecting them in a list and then subsequently
constructing an array with these values. This does not work if any of
the values choosen are masked. See example below
On a more general note I am interested to find out whether there are
any other languages that handle masked/missing data well and if so how
this is done. My only experience is with R, which I have found to be
quite good (there is a special value NA this signifies a masked value
- this can be mixed in with non-masked values when defining an array).
from numpy import *
a = ma.array([1,2,3], mask=[True, False, False])
print a[0], type(a[0])
print a[1], type(a[1])
print list(a)
a = ma.array(list(a))
-- output --
-- <class 'numpy.core.ma.MaskedArray'>
2 <type 'numpy.int32'>
[array(data =
999999,
mask =
True,
fill_value=999999)
, 2, 3]
C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\numpy\core\ma.py:604: UserWarning:
Cannot automatically convert masked array to numeric because data
is masked in one or more locations.
warnings.warn("Cannot automatically convert masked array to "\
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\eclipse\Table\scripts\testrecarray.py", line 23, in ?
a = ma.array(list(a))
File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\numpy\core\ma.py", line 562, in __init__
c = numeric.array(data, dtype=tc, copy=True, order=order)
TypeError: an integer is required
On 10/16/06, Pierre GM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks,
> I just posted on the scipy/developers zone wiki
> (http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/MaskedArray) a reimplementation
> of the masked_array mopdule, motivated by some problems I ran into while
> subclassing MaskedArray.
>
> The main differences with the initial numpy.core.ma package are that
> MaskedArray is now a subclass of ndarray and that the _data section can now
> be any subclass of ndarray (well, it should work in most cases, some tweaking
> might required here and there). Apart from a couple of issues listed below,
> the behavior of the new MaskedArray class reproduces the old one. It is quite
> likely to be significantly slower, though: I was more interested in a clear
> organization than in performance, so I tended to use wrappers liberally. I'm
> sure we can improve that rather easily.
>
> The new module, along with a test suite and some utilities, are available
> here:
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/attachment/wiki/MaskedArray/maskedarray.py
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/attachment/wiki/MaskedArray/masked_testutils.py
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/attachment/wiki/MaskedArray/test_maskedarray.py
>
> Please note that it's still a work in progress (even if it seems to work quite
> OK when I use it). Suggestions, comments, improvements and general feedback
> are more than welcome !
>
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