I think this is just Python behavior; comparing python ints and strs also gives False:
In [45]: 8 == 'L' Out[45]: False On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Please forgive me if this is obvious, but this surprised me: > > In [15]: x = np.array(['a', 'b']) > > In [16]: x == 'a' # this was what I expected > Out[16]: array([ True, False], dtype=bool) > > In [17]: x == 1 # this was strange to me > Out[17]: False > > Is it easy to explain why this is? > > Thanks a lot, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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