On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Charles R Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like the consensus is that zero should be returned. This is a > change from current behaviour and that bothers me a bit. Here are some other > oddities > > In [6]: nanmax([nan]) > Out[6]: nan > > In [7]: nanargmax([nan]) > Out[7]: nan > > In [8]: nanargmax([1]) > Out[8]: 0 > > So it looks like the current behaviour is very much tilted towards nans as > missing data flags. I think we should just leave that as is with perhaps a > note in the docs to that effect. The decision here should probably > accommodate the current users of these functions, of which I am not one.
That works well for me. > If > we leave the current behaviour as is then I think the rest of the nan > functions need fixes to return nan for empty sequences as nansum is the only > one that currently does that. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
