From 1e6a536849659f3e61fdc99d35a262d8a0d5fe93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Kuschel <stephan.kuschel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:25:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed bug in particle counting

---
 postpic/analyzer/particles.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/postpic/analyzer/particles.py b/postpic/analyzer/particles.py
index 8e8ba56e..41579271 100644
--- a/postpic/analyzer/particles.py
+++ b/postpic/analyzer/particles.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ def uncompress(self):
     def __len__(self):  # = number of particles
         # find a valid dataset to count number of paricles
         if self._compressboollist is not None:
-            return len(self._compressboollist)
+            return np.count_nonzero(self._compressboollist)
         for key in self._atomicprops:
             try:
                 # len(3) will yield a TypeError, len([3]) returns 1