Mark Wiebe wrote: > 1) NA vs IGNORE and bitpattern vs mask are completely independent. Any > combination of NA as bitpattern, NA as mask, IGNORE as bitpattern, and > IGNORE as mask are reasonable.
Is this really true? if you use a bitpattern for IGNORE, haven't you just lost the ability to get the original value back if you want to stop ignoring it? Maybe that's not inherent to what an IGNORE means, but it seems pretty key to me. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected] _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
