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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It looks like 1.0-x is doing the right thing.

The problem is 1.0*x for matrices is going to float64.  For arrays it 
returns float32 just like the 1.0-x

This can't be changed at this point until 1.1

We will fix the bug in 1.0*x producing float64, however.  I'm still not 
sure what's causing it, though.

-Travis