On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 8:35 PM Sebastian Berg <sebast...@sipsolutions.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 19:49 +0100, Andras Deak wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:39 PM Sebastian Berg
> > <sebast...@sipsolutions.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > the `np.ndenumerate` does not work well for masked arrays (like
> > > many
> > > main namespace functions, it simply ignores/drops the mask).
> > >
> > > There is a PR (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20020) to add a
> > > version of it to `np.ma` (masked array specific).  And we thought
> > > it
> > > seemed reasonable and were planning on putting it in.
> > >
> > > This version skips all masked elements.  An alternative could be to
> > > return `np.ma.masked` for masked elements?
> > >
> > > So if anyone thinks that may be the better solution, please send a
> > > brief mail.
> > >
> >
> > Would it be a bad idea to add a kwarg that specifies this behaviour
> > (i.e.
> > offering both alternatives)? Assuming people might need the masked
> > items to
> > be there under certain circumstances. Perhaps when zipping masked
> > data with
> > dense data?
> >
>
> Sure, if you agree the default should be skipping, I guess we are OK
> with adding it? ;)
>

I don't actually use masked arrays myself, nor ndenumerate, so I'm very
forgiving in this matter...
But if both use cases are plausible (_if_, although I can indeed imagine
that this is the case), supporting both seems straightforward. Considering
the pure python implementation it wouldn't be a problem to expose both
functionalities.

András



> Cheers,
>
> Sebastian
>
>
> > András
> >
> >
> >
> > > (Personally, I don't have opinions on masked arrays for the most
> > > part.)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Sebastian
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