[Numpy-tickets] [NumPy] #496: ones and zeros return floats by default (not ints)

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#496: ones and zeros return floats by default (not ints)
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 Reporter:  socha       |       Owner:  somebody     
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:  1.0.2 Release
Component:  numpy.core  |     Version:  none         
 Severity:  normal      |    Keywords:  ones zeros   
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 Despite what the documentation says, ones and zeros return floats by
 default, not ints.  Here's an example:

 {{{
 C:\Documents and Settings\socha>python
 Python 2.4.3 - Enthought Edition 1.0.0 (#69, Aug  2 2006, 12:09:59) [MSC
 v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import numpy
 >>> numpy.__version__
 '1.0.2'
 >>> from numpy import ones
 >>> ones(3)
 array([ 1.,  1.,  1.])
 >>> from numpy import zeros
 >>> zeros(3)
 array([ 0.,  0.,  0.])
 >>>
 }}}

 Yet on page 88 of the manual, it says:

 {{{
 zeros (shape=, dtype=int, order=’C’)
 ...
 ones (shape=, dtype=int, order=’C’)
 }}}

 which indicates that the default type is int.

 - David Socha & Daniel Terhorst, UrbanSim Project, http://www.urbansim.org

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