Re: [Numpy-discussion] x.min() depends on ordering

[Keith G. <kwg...@gm...>]

On 11/11/06, Robert Kern <rob...@gm...> wrote:

> Barring a clever solution (at least cleverer than I feel like being
> immediately), the way to solve this would be to check for nans in the array and
> deal with them separately (or simply ignore them in the case of x.min()).
> However, this checking would slow down the common case that has no nans
> (sans nans, if you will).

I'm not one of the fans of sans nans.

I'd prefer a slower min() that ignored nans. But I'm probably in the minority.

How about a nanmin() function?