[Numpy-discussion] Re: calculating on matrix indices

[Brian B. <bb...@br...>]

Robert Kern wrote:
> The traceback tells you exactly what's wrong:
> 
> In [7]: x[idx] = exp(-t[idx]/tau)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> exceptions.TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call
> last)
> 

yes, I saw that, but all of the types (i.e. type(x)) came out to be the same, so I 
figured the problem was with the indexing, and that was causing a typecast problem. 
I didn't know about dtype

> In [13]: x = zeros(len(t), float)

well that is confusing!  zeros(5,'f') is single precision, zeros(5,'d') is double, 
and zeros(5,float) is double!  that's where I got whacked, because I remembered that 
"float" was "double" in python...but I guess, not always.


thanks for your help!



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