Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:44:59 -0400, Skipper Seabold wrote: [clip] > In [35]: timeit np.any(a!=b) [clip] > It seems to at least take less time when the difference is at the > "beginning," though I'm sure there could be exceptions.
It performs all the comparisons to create a temporary boolean array. any() does return when it sees the first True, but this is not full short-circuiting. -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion