Re: [Numpy-discussion] String array equality test does not broadcast

[Tim H. <tim...@co...>]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

> Russel Howe wrote:
>
>> I am converting some numarray code to numpy and I noticed this behavior:
>>
>> >>> from numpy import *
>> >>> sta=array(['abc', 'def', 'ghi'])
>> >>> stb=array(['abc', 'jkl', 'ghi'])
>> >>> sta==stb
>> False
>>
>> I expected the same as this:
>> >>> a1=array([1,2,3])
>> >>> a2=array([1,4,3])
>> >>> a1==a2
>> array([True, False, True], dtype=bool)
>>
>> I am trying to figure out how to fix this now...
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> Equality testing on string arrays does not work (equality testing uses 
> ufuncs internally which are not supported generally for flexible 
> arrays).   You must use chararray's.

Should string arrays then perhaps raise an exception here to keep people 
out of trouble?

-tim


>
> Thus,
>
> sta.view(chararray) == stb.view(chararray)
>
> Or create chararray's from the beginning:
>
> sta = char.array(['abc','def','ghi'])
> stb = char.array(['abc','jkl','ghi'])
>
> Char arrays are a special subclass of the ndarray that give arrays all 
> the methods of strings (and unicode) elements and allow (rich) 
> comparison operations.
>
> -Travis
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