biggus.Array.ndarray(...) and masked_array(...) don't always return arrays

[djkirkham]

In certain degenerate cases, the result of calling ndarray(...) or masked_array(...) will be a NumPy numeric type, not an array. For example:

import biggus
import numpy as np

a = np.array(3)
b = biggus.NumpyArrayAdapter(a)
c = b * 4
d = c.ndarray()

print type(d)

The result is a NumPy integer type. This is consistent with the behaviour of NumPy arrays, but is confusing, especially since the docstrings for these functions explicitly state that they return a NumPy ndarray/MaskedArray instance.

[pelson]

Seems unlikely that we are going to change this behaviour in biggus, at this point (due to our general preference for dask.array). I'm going to close this issue out.

Thanks