From: Todd M. <jm...@st...> - 2002-10-07 18:49:55
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Travis Oliphant wrote: >On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Todd Miller wrote: > >>The subject line contains what I consider to be an invalid range >>expression. Numarray, now and always, reacts badly to it. Currently, >>numarray tries to allocate a multi-gigabyte array. In the past, it has >>dumped core. >> >>The question is, what should it do? >> >>1. raise ValueError, "Invalid negative range expression" (my +1) >> >+1 > >I didn't realize Numeric behaved badly in this area. > >-Travis > > I replied to this earlier, but I may have forgotten to reply-all, because I never saw my response. Anyway, I don't think Numeric has a problem with arange(<negative_value>), but numarray does. The vote is currently +3 "raise", +2 "compatible". All votes appreciated Todd |