RE: [Numpy-discussion] coercion of arrays

[Perry G. <pe...@st...>]

You are right on both counts. These are indeed coercion
bugs and we will fix them. The first should end up being an
Int32 actually.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Perry Greenfield
> 
> I was looking at the coercion of arrays in the new numarray. The 
> following is 
> not intuitive to me:
> 
> >>> a = array(1, Int8)
> >>> b = array(1, UInt16)
> >>> c = a + b
> >>> c.type()
> UInt16
> 
> Should the result not be a signed integer type?
> 
> Also the following result is strange to me:
> 
> >>> a = array(1, Float64)
> >>> b = array(1, Complex32)
> >>> c = a + b
> >>> c.type()
> Complex32
> 
> Complex64 would seem to be the more apropiate type here for the result.
> 
> Could somebody comment if these are bugs or not?
> 
> Cheers, Peter
> 
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