Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot with nans

[Norbert N. <Nor...@gm...>]

Andrew Straw wrote:

> It seems MaskedArrays are the preferred way to do this.  See the
> masked_demo.py example.

Why is that? Couldn't both be handled in the same way?

The only advantage of MaskedArray is the portability to non IEEE
systems. However, 99% of the systems in use are IEEE conformant, and
there NaN is by far more powerful.