On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Ralf Gommers < > ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In ticket 1948 a backwards compatibility issue with chararray is >> reported. Indexing a chararray with [] or a bool array of False used to >> return [] in numpy 1.2.1 (consistent with ndarray behavior), but now >> returns an empty string. Unfortunately this changed behavior has been >> present for the 1.5.x and 1.6.x releases. >> >> So the question is if this should be changed back or not? The change was >> likely unintentional; there's no test for it. >> >> > I believe the stsci folks were maintaining chararray, although I don't see > anyone from there with commit permissions. Hmm... I'd be inclined to > reinstate the old behavior, but the stsci folks may have deliberately made > the change, I'd like to hear from them first. > The change was made by Michael Droettboom (CC'd), who did have commit permissions for this. They got lost with the Github move it seems. Ralf
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