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authorCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2014-03-28 10:19:47 -0600
committerCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2014-03-28 14:08:31 -0600
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downloadnumpy-92a0a2c4e49474c0240da6be25680d488877109b.tar.gz
DOC: Document changes to ma.core._check_fill_value in release notes.
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@@ -66,6 +66,17 @@ ndarray.tofile exception type
All ``tofile`` exceptions are now ``IOError``, some were previously
``ValueError``.
+Invalid fill value exceptions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Two changes to numpy.ma.core._check_fill_value:
+
+* When the fill value is a string and the array type is not one of
+ 'OSUV', TypeError is raised instead of the default fill value being used.
+
+* When the fill value overflows the array type, TypeError is raised instead
+ of OverflowError.
+
+
The ``doc/swig`` directory moved
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The ``doc/swig`` directory has been moved to ``tools/swig``.