python: getting around division by zero

Question

I have a big data set of floating point numbers. I iterate through them and evaluate np.log(x) for each of them. I get

RuntimeWarning: divide b         


        

Answer 1

you could do:

def safe_ln(x):
    #returns: ln(x) but replaces -inf with 0
    try:
        l = np.log(x)
    except RunTimeWarning:
        l = 0
    return l