[Numpy-discussion] unexpected behavior with allclose( scalar, empty array)

[Robert Kern]

Andrew Straw wrote:
> Apologies if I've missed the discussion of this, but I was recently
> surprised by the following behavior (in svn trunk 4673). The following
> code runs without triggering the assertion.
> 
> import numpy as np
> print np.__version__
> a=np.int32(42)
> b=np.array([],dtype=np.int32)
> assert np.allclose(a,b)
> 
> Is this expected behavior of numpy or is this a bug I should report?

Bug, I think.

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Robert Kern

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