[Numpy-discussion] numpy.ma bug: need sanity check in masked_where

[Eric Firing]

Pierre,

I just tripped over what boils down to the sequence given below.  It 
would be useful if the error in line 53 were trapped right away; as it 
is, it results in a masked array that looks reasonable but fails in a 
non-obvious way.

Eric

In [52]:x = [1,2]

In [53]:y = ma.masked_where(False, x)

In [54]:y
Out[54]:
masked_array(data = [1 2],
       mask = False,
       fill_value=999999)


In [55]:y[1]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/efiring/<ipython console> in <module>()

/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/ma/core.pyc in 
__getitem__(self, indx)
    1307         if not getattr(dout,'ndim', False):
    1308             # Just a scalar............
-> 1309             if m is not nomask and m[indx]:
    1310                 return masked
    1311         else:

IndexError: 0-d arrays can't be indexed