Tim Hochberg (el 2006-12-20 a les 09:20:01 -0700) va dir:: > Actually, this is on purpose. Numpy.where (and most other switching > constructs in Python) will switch on almost anything. In particular, any > number that is nonzero is considered True, zero is considered False. By > changing the signature, you're restricting where to only accepting > booleans. Since booleans and ints can by freely cast to doubles in > numexpr, always using float for the condition saves us a couple of opcodes. > [...]
Yes, I understand the reasons you expose here. Nou you brought the
topic about, I'm curious about what does "always using float for the
condition saves us a couple of opcodes" mean. Could you explain this?
Just for curiosity. :)
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