BUG: ensure we never do nan < nan

mhvk · mhvk · commit bbe738f14aef · 2025-04-13T08:14:34.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -3756,8 +3756,12 @@ def apply_mask(arrays, mask):
                     f"'{dep_axis}err' must not contain None. "
                     "Use NaN if you want to skip a value.")
 
-            if np.any((err < -err) & (err == err)):
-                # like err<0, but also works for timedelta and nan.
+            # Raise if any errors are negative, but not if they are nan.
+            # To avoid nan comparisons (which lead to warnings on some
+            # platforms), we select with `err==err` (which is False for nan).
+            # Also, since datetime.timedelta cannot be compared with 0,
+            # we compare with the negative error instead.
+            if np.any((check := err[err == err]) < -check):
                 raise ValueError(
                     f"'{dep_axis}err' must not contain negative values")
             # This is like
