On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Moroney, Catherine M (398D)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got two arrays of the same shape that I read in from a file, and I'm 
> trying to
> difference them.  Very simple stuff, but I'm getting weird answers.
>
> Here is the code:
>
>>>> counts1 = hfile1.read_grid_field("CFbA", 
>>>> "TerrainReferencedRCCMFraction_Num")
>>>> counts2 = hfile2.read_grid_field("CFbA", 
>>>> "TerrainReferencedRCCMFraction_Num")
>>>> counts1.max(), counts2.max()
> (13, 13)
>>>> counts1.min(), counts2.min()
> (0, 0)
>>>> numpy.all(counts1 == counts2)
> False
>>>> diff = counts1 - counts2
>>>> diff.max()
> 4294967295      !! WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE ??
>>>> sum = counts1 + counts2
>>>> sum.max()
> 26
>
> As you can see, the range of values in both arrays is 0 to 13, and the sum
> behaves normally, but the difference gives this weird number.
>
> When I create dummy arrays, the subtraction works fine.  So there must be 
> some funny value
> lurking in either the counts1 or counts2 array, but the numpy.isnan() test 
> returns False.
>
> Any ideas for how I debug this?

check the dtype of the count variables, may be uint

diff =1 *  counts1 - counts2

Josef

>
> Catherine
>
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