Re: [Numpy-discussion] Converting bool to float

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

Keith Goodman wrote:

>I had a hard time tracing a bug in my code. The culprit was this difference:
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>>>x
>>>      
>>>
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>matrix([[True],
>        [True],
>        [True]], dtype=bool)
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>>>1.0 - x
>>>      
>>>
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>matrix([[ 0.],
>        [ 0.],
>        [ 0.]], dtype=float32)     <------- float32
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>>>1.0*x
>>>      
>>>
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>matrix([[ 1.],
>        [ 1.],
>        [ 1.]])                            <-------- float64
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>>>numpy.__version__
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>'1.0rc1'
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>Any chance that 1.0 - x could return dtype = float64?
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I'm surprised it doesn't.   Both should follow bascially the same 
code-path.  Perhaps there is a missing function loop or something. 


I'll look in to it.

-Travis