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Nicole Buckenwolf
8,718 PointsWhy a space before `True`?
This is more just an observation/curiosity but I'm wondering if anyone knows if there's an actual reason for this or if it's just a quirk.
In the Introduction to Numpy video about Boolean Array Indexing I noticed that when Craig creates this example
np.array([False, True, True]) & np.array([True, False, True])
The result comes back as
array([False, False, True])
I am just curious if anyone knows why in True gets an extra space before it? If you change the values around, for instance
np.array([True, True, True]) & np.array([True, False, True])
You get
array([ True, False, True])
Thanks!
2 Answers
Rohald van Merode
Treehouse StaffHi Nicole Buckenwolf 👋
Great question! This is NumPy's way to print arrays, improving readability. By adding some white space the character length of all values are the same and therefor everything is nicely printed in columns. You can see the same thing happening with the numbers a little later in the video 🙂
Nicole Buckenwolf
8,718 PointsOhhh columns, that makes so much sense. Thank you!!!