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unexpected behaviour of ak.where with arrays containing Nones #3098

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Version of Awkward Array

1.10.5

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I ran into this weird behaviour of ak.where when used on arrays of mixed datatype (not sure about the terminology, but I mean arrays potentially containing None values, as indicated by the question mark).

Basically, the function breaks down when the boolean condition is of mixed datatype and the choices contain a None value.
In that case, the output will be None, even when the boolean condition doesn't contain any Nones at all and the None value shouldn't have been selected. For the choice arrays, the problem only arises when one of them contains a None indeed. For the boolean arrays, it is sufficient that the datatype is mixed.
See the code below to reproduce this behaviour.

mixed_type_cond = ak.Array([[True], [None]])[0]
pure_type_cond = ak.Array([True])
none_alternative = ak.Array([None])
zero_alternative = ak.Array([0])
mixed_zero_alternative = ak.Array([[0], [None]])[0]

ak.where(mixed_type_cond, 1, none_alternative)
>>> <Array [None] type='1 * ?int64'>
ak.where(mixed_type_cond, 1, zero_alternative)
>>> <Array [1] type='1 * ?int64'>
ak.where(mixed_type_cond, 1, mixed_zero_alternative)
>>> <Array [1] type='1 * ?int64'>

ak.where(pure_type_cond, 1, none_alternative)
>>> <Array [1] type='1 * ?int64'>
ak.where(pure_type_cond, 1, zero_alternative)
>>> <Array [1] type='1 * ?int64'>
ak.where(pure_type_cond, 1, mixed_zero_alternative)
>>> <Array [1] type='1 * ?int64'>

ak.where(~mixed_type_cond, none_alternative, 1)
>>> <Array [None] type='1 * ?int64'>
ak.where(~mixed_type_cond, zero_alternative, 1)
>>> <Array [1] type='1 * ?int64'>
ak.where(~mixed_type_cond, mixed_zero_alternative, 1)
>>> <Array [1] type='1 * ?int64'>

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