Mark Wiebe writes: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Lluís <xscr...@gmx.net> wrote: > [...] >> As far as I can tell, the only required difference between them is >> that NA bit patterns must destroy the data. Nothing else. Everything >> on top of that is a choice of API and interface mechanisms. I want >> them to behave exactly the same except for that necessary difference, >> so that it will be possible to use the *exact same Python code* with >> either approach. > I completely agree. What I'd suggest is a global and/or per-object > "ndarray.flags.skipna" for people like me that just want to ignore these > entries without caring about setting it on each operaion (or the other > way around, depends on the default behaviour). > The downside is that it adds yet another tweaking knob, which is not > desirable...
> One way around this would be to create an ndarray subclass which > changes that default. Currently this would not be possible to do > nicely, but with the _numpy_ufunc_ idea I proposed in a separate > thread a while back, this could work. That does indeed sound good :) Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
