On 19/09/06, Tim Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Goodman wrote: > > In what order would you like argsort to sort the values -inf, nan, inf? > > > Ideally, -inf should sort first, inf should sort last and nan should > raise an exception if present. > > -tim
Mmm. Somebody who's working with NaNs has more or less already decided they don't want to be pestered with exceptions for invalid data. I'd be happy if they wound up at either end, but I'm not sure it's worth hacking up the sort algorithm when a simple isnan() can pull them out. What's happening now is that NaN<a, NaN==a, and NaN>a are all false, which rather confuses the sorting algorithm. But as long as it doesn't actually *break* (that is, leave some of the non-NaNs incorrectly sorted) I don't care. A. M. Archibald ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
