On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Charles Doutriaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I guess this maybe "normal" but it breaks a lot of thing when conterting > from Numeric > > >>> a=numpy.ones(5,dtype=numpy.float32) > >>> isinstance(a[0],float) > False > >>> It looks like float in this case is a python float, not a numpy float. > > float64 works... It has the same underlying c type as the python float. Maybe it should fail? > > I can see why one could argue for returning False, but then the > converter might be too zealous > things that used to work like: > if type(item) in [types.IntType, types.FloatType]: > > or: > > isinstance(item, types.FloatType) > > now fail, > > > should we be concerned? should we consider returning True ? > I think you want the isreal function, but it will also return true for complex with 0 imaginary part. Hmm... the various iswhatever functions seem to be lacking in coverage. Maybe we should fix that. Chuck
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