Python and numpy Bool Types

Tue 29 November 2016

This blog post is triggered by a colleague stopping me in the hall and asking “What does ~ do in Python?” She was surprised by the behavior of the ~ operator when applied to Python bool types and I was surprised that it behaved differently on numpy bools than on Python bools …

Fun with Floating Point Precision in numpy

Wed 17 February 2016

I recently had a bug in my code that obviously was caused by an issue with floating point precision but had me scratching my head how it came about. Here it is:

In [1]:

import numpy as np
from astropy.table import Table
from astropy import cosmology

cosmo = cosmology.WMAP9 …