On Wednesday 22 July 2009 17:16:31 Ralf Gommers wrote:
> Examples where min/max probably does not do what you want, and
> find_common_type does:
>
> In [49]: max(float, float32)
> Out[49]: <type 'numpy.float32'>
> In [50]: find_common_type([], [float, float32])
> Out[50]: dtype('float64')
I don't understand the following behaviour:
In [5]: numpy.find_common_type([float32,int32],[])
Out[5]: dtype('float32')
In [6]: numpy.find_common_type([int32,float32],[])
Out[6]: dtype('int32')
In both cases, I would actually expect float64 to be the answer (since int32
does not "fit into" float32). And I wonder why it depends on the order?
When I actually try the same with arrays, I get float64 as expected:
In [8]: a = numpy.array([1,2,3], int32)
In [9]: b = numpy.array([1,2,3], float32)
In [10]: a + b
Out[10]: array([ 2., 4., 6.])
In [11]: b + a
Out[11]: array([ 2., 4., 6.])
Is this a known bug in numpy 1.3.0, or am I missing something?
Have a nice day!
Hans
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