Re: [Numpy-discussion] bug?

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

hu...@ya... wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> the docstring for compress in numpy give this
> 
> help(numpy.compress)
> 
> compress(condition, m, axis=None, out=None)
>     compress(condition, x, axis=None) = those elements of x corresponding
>     to those elements of condition that are "true".  condition must be the
>     same size as the given dimension of x.
> 
> 
> So (but perhaps I can misundertand the help due to my english) I don't 
> undersand the following error, for me a and c array does have the same 
> dimension and size. So someone can explain me the result please?

The docstring is a bit underspecified. The condition array *must* be a 1D array 
with the same size *as the given axis* of the other array (using the convention 
that axis=None implies operating over the flattened array).

There's simply no valid interpretation of this, for example:

   compress(array([[1, 0, 0],
                   [1, 1, 0]]), arange(6).reshape(2,3))

since numpy arrays cannot be "ragged".

-- 
Robert Kern

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