Re: [Numpy-discussion] sorting -inf, nan, inf

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

Keith Goodman wrote:
> In what order would you like argsort to sort the values -inf, nan, inf?
>   
Ideally, -inf should sort first, inf should sort last and nan should 
raise an exception if present.

-tim


> In numpy 1.0b1 nan is always left where it began:
>
> EXAMPLE 1
>
>   
>>> x
>>>       
>
> matrix([[              inf],
>         [             -inf],
>         [              nan]])
>   
>>> x[x.argsort(0),:]
>>>       
>
> matrix([[             -inf],
>         [              inf],
>         [              nan]])
>
> EXAMPLE 2
>
>   
>>> x
>>>       
>
> matrix([[                  nan],
>         [                  inf],
>         [                 -inf]])
>   
>>> x[x.argsort(0),:]
>>>       
>
> matrix([[                  nan],
>         [                 -inf],
>         [                  inf]])
>
>
> I would like nan to be in the middle between -inf and inf.
>
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