Re: [Numpy-discussion] dtype.hasobject value

[Travis O. <oli...@ee...>]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

>Matthew Brett wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I notice that the value for:
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>>zeros((1,), dtype=object).dtype.hasobject
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>>is now 63, whereas previously it had been 1.  Is this intended?
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>Yes.  We are using hasobject as an 8-bit flag now and separating out 
>some of the concepts that make object arrays object arrays.
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>This will be in 1.0.1 which will come out soon.  It should be binary 
>compatible with 1.0.
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>
Let me follow up with this.   I've changed back dtype.hasobject so that 
it returns a Python boolean object.  Thus comparisons to 1 should work 
fine.  Under the covers it is

(dtype->hasobject & NPY_ITEM_HASOBJECT) == NPY_ITEM_HASOBJECT)

There is a new attribute (flags) that contains all the flags in the 
hasobject variable.  

-Travis