numpy/numpy — pull request #5182 by juliantaylor (2014-10-13 21:30:10+00:00)
Title: BUG: fix nanmedian on arrays containing inf

There are two issues:
A masked divide of an infinite value is a masked value which means one
can't use np.ma.mean to compute the median as infinity division is well
defined.
This behaviour seems wrong to me but it also looks intentional so
changing it is not appropriate for a bugfix release.

The second issue is that the ordering of the sorted masked array is
undefined for equal values, the sorting considers infinity the largest
floating point value which is not correct in respect to sorting where
nan is considered larger. This is fixed by changing the
minimum_fill_value to nan for float data in the masked sorts.

Closes gh-5138