python indexerror out of bound_Why python numpy.delete does not raise indexError when out-of-bounds ...

This is a known "feature" and will be deprecated in later versions.

# Test if there are out of bound indices, this is deprecated

inside_bounds = (obj < N) & (obj >= -N)

if not inside_bounds.all():

# 2013-09-24, 1.9

warnings.warn(

"in the future out of bounds indices will raise an error "

"instead of being ignored by `numpy.delete`.",

DeprecationWarning)

obj = obj[inside_bounds]

Enabling DeprecationWarning in python actually shows this warning. Ref

In [1]: import warnings

In [2]: warnings.simplefilter('always', DeprecationWarning)

In [3]: warnings.warn('test', DeprecationWarning)

C:\Users\u31492\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\Scripts\ipython-script.py:1: De

precationWarning: test

if __name__ == '__main__':

In [4]: import numpy as np

In [5]: np.delete(np.arange(0,5), np.array([9]))

C:\Users\u31492\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\fun

ction_base.py:3869: DeprecationWarning: in the future out of bounds indices will

raise an error instead of being ignored by `numpy.delete`.

DeprecationWarning)

Out[5]: array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4])