On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 13:59, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Joe Kington <jking...@wisc.edu> wrote: >> >> Is there a numpy function for testing floating point equality that returns >> a boolean array? >> >> I'm aware of np.allclose, but I need a boolean array. Properly handling >> NaN's and Inf's (as allclose does) would be a nice bonus. >> >> I wrote the function below to do this, but I suspect there's a method in >> numpy that I missed. > > > I don't think such a function exists, would be nice to have. How about just > adding a keyword "return_array" to allclose to do so?
As a general design principle, adding a boolean flag that changes the return type is worse than making a new function. -- Robert Kern _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
