[Python-modules-team] Bug#573179: "AttributeError: 'numpy.bool_' object has no attribute '_mask'" whenever imshow'ing masked array

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: python-matplotlib
Version: 0.99.1.2-3
Severity: normal


throws an exception while comparing two masked arrays which have no values (all
masked out)... sure thing it can't determine vmin/vmax to be used (unless clim
is used explicitely), but the exception which is thrown is non-informative.  I
thought that upstream might want to make it more user-friendly -- please
forward upstream.  

Here is the code to reproduce:
import pylab as pl
import numpy as np

size = (5, 5)
d = np.ones(size)
mask = d.astype(bool)

md = np.ma.masked_array(d, mask)
pl.imshow(md)
# explicit  clim would eliminate the problem
#pl.clim(0, 1)
pl.colorbar()

and here is the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1417, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 212, in resize
    self.show()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 215, in draw
    FigureCanvasAgg.draw(self)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line 314, in draw
    self.figure.draw(self.renderer)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/artist.py", line 46, in draw_wrapper
    draw(artist, renderer, *kl)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/figure.py", line 773, in draw
    for a in self.axes: a.draw(renderer)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/artist.py", line 46, in draw_wrapper
    draw(artist, renderer, *kl)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/axes.py", line 1701, in draw
    im.draw(renderer)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/artist.py", line 46, in draw_wrapper
    draw(artist, renderer, *kl)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/image.py", line 237, in draw
    im = self.make_image(renderer.get_image_magnification())
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/image.py", line 182, in make_image
    x = self.to_rgba(self._A, self._alpha)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/cm.py", line 166, in to_rgba
    x = self.norm(x)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/colors.py", line 763, in __call__
    elif vmin==vmax:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/ma/core.py", line 3119, in __eq__
    check._mask = mask
AttributeError: 'numpy.bool_' object has no attribute '_mask'






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