On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:31:35AM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> Do you agree that the first (!!!) answer is a bug?
> (The basis is apparently performed as follows:
> integer array subtraction is first performed, and
> then nonzero ints are converted to True.  But this
> gives the wrong answer and most critically breaks
> the equivalence of a-b and a+(-b).)

OK, putting aside the useless maths, I agree that specifically having

a-b != a+(-b)

If numpy developpers agree, I think the proper solution is :

"""
    def __sub__(self, b):
        return self.__add__(-b)
"""

I think to should allow to have more or less consistent operations.

Gaƫl
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