Mailman 3 January 2011 - NumPy-Discussion

mixed mode arithmetic
by Neal Becker July 11, 2023

July 11, 2023

I've been browsing the numpy source. I'm wondering about mixed-mode arithmetic on arrays. I believe the way numpy handles this is that it never does mixed arithmetic, but instead converts arrays to a common type. Arguably, that might be efficient for a mix of say, double and float. Maybe not. But for a mix of complex and a scalar type (say, CDouble * Double), it's clearly suboptimal in efficiency. So, do I understand this correctly? If so, is that something we should improve?

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Re: [Numpy-discussion] example reading binary Fortran file
by Neil Martinsen-Burrell July 22, 2021

July 22, 2021

David Froger <david.froger.info <at> gmail.com> writes: > Hy,My question is about reading Fortran binary file (oh no this question > again...) I've posted this before, but I finally got it cleaned up for the Cookbook. For this purpose I use a subclass of file that has methods for reading unformatted Fortran data. See http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/FortranIO/FortranFile. I'd gladly see this in numpy or scipy somewhere, but I'm not sure where it belongs. > program makeArray > implicit none > integer,parameter:: nx=10,ny=20 > real(4),dimension(nx,ny):: ux,uy,p > integer :: i,j > open(11,file='uxuyp.bin',form='unformatted') > do i = 1,nx > do j = 1,ny > ux(i,j) = real(i*j) > uy(i,j) = real(i)/real(j) > p (i,j) = real(i) + real(j) > enddo > enddo > write(11) ux,uy > write(11) p > close(11) > end program makeArray When I run the above program compiled with gfortran on my Intel Mac, I can read it back with:: >>> import numpy as np >>> from fortranfile import FortranFile >>> f=FortranFile('uxuyp.bin', endian='<') >>> uxuy = f.readReals(prec='f') # 'f' for default reals >>> len(uxuy) 400 >>> ux = np.array(uxuy[:200]).reshape((20,10)).T >>> uy = np.array(uxuy[200:]).reshape((20,10)).T >>> p = f.readReals('f').reshape((20,10)).T >>> ux array([[ 1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20.], [ 2., 4., 6., 8., 10., 12., 14., 16., 18., 20., 22., 24., 26., 28., 30., 32., 34., 36., 38., 40.], [ 3., 6., 9., 12., 15., 18., 21., 24., 27., 30., 33., 36., 39., 42., 45., 48., 51., 54., 57., 60.], [ 4., 8., 12., 16., 20., 24., 28., 32., 36., 40., 44., 48., 52., 56., 60., 64., 68., 72., 76., 80.], [ 5., 10., 15., 20., 25., 30., 35., 40., 45., 50., 55., 60., 65., 70., 75., 80., 85., 90., 95., 100.], [ 6., 12., 18., 24., 30., 36., 42., 48., 54., 60., 66., 72., 78., 84., 90., 96., 102., 108., 114., 120.], [ 7.,Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 14., 21., 28., 35., 42., 49., 56., 63., 70., 77., 84., 91., 98., 105., 112., 119., 126., 133., 140.], [ 8., 16., 24., 32., 40., 48., 56., 64., 72., 80., 88., 96., 104., 112., 120., 128., 136., 144., 152., 160.], [ 9., 18., 27., 36., 45., 54., 63., 72., 81., 90., 99., 108., 117., 126., 135., 144., 153., 162., 171., 180.], [ 10., 20., 30., 40., 50., 60., 70., 80., 90., 100., 110., 120., 130., 140., 150., 160., 170., 180., 190., 200.]]) >>> uy array([[ 1. , 0.5 , 0.33333334, 0.25 , 0.2 , 0.16666667, 0.14285715, 0.125 , 0.11111111, 0.1 , 0.09090909, 0.08333334, 0.07692308, 0.07142857, 0.06666667, 0.0625 , 0.05882353, 0.05555556, 0.05263158, 0.05 ], [ 2. , 1. , 0.66666669, 0.5 , 0.40000001, 0.33333334, 0.2857143 , 0.25 , 0.22222222, 0.2 , 0.18181819, 0.16666667, 0.15384616, 0.14285715, 0.13333334, 0.125 , 0.11764706, 0.11111111, 0.10526316, 0.1 ], [ 3. , 1.5 , 1. , 0.75 , 0.60000002, 0.5 , 0.42857143, 0.375 , 0.33333334, 0.30000001, 0.27272728, 0.25 , 0.23076923, 0.21428572, 0.2 , 0.1875 , 0.17647059, 0.16666667, 0.15789473, 0.15000001], [ 4. , 2. , 1.33333337, 1. , 0.80000001, 0.66666669, 0.5714286 , 0.5 , 0.44444445, 0.40000001, 0.36363637, 0.33333334, 0.30769232, 0.2857143 , 0.26666668, 0.25 , 0.23529412, 0.22222222, 0.21052632, 0.2 ], [ 5. , 2.5 , 1.66666663, 1.25 , 1. , 0.83333331, 0.71428573, 0.625 , 0.55555558, 0.5 , 0.45454547, 0.41666666, 0.38461539, 0.35714287, 0.33333334, 0.3125 , 0.29411766, 0.27777779, 0.2631579 , 0.25 ], [ 6. , 3. , 2. , 1.5 , 1.20000005, 1. , 0.85714287, 0.75 , 0.66666669, 0.60000002, 0.54545456, 0.5 , 0.46153846, 0.42857143, 0.40000001, 0.375 , 0.35294119, 0.33333334, 0.31578946, 0.30000001], [ 7. , 3.5 , 2.33333325, 1.75 , 1.39999998, 1.16666663, 1. , 0.875 , 0.77777779, 0.69999999, 0.63636363, 0.58333331, 0.53846157, 0.5 , 0.46666667, 0.4375 , 0.41176471, 0.3888889 , 0.36842105, 0.34999999], [ 8. , 4. , 2.66666675, 2. , 1.60000002, 1.33333337, 1.14285719, 1. , 0.8888889 , 0.80000001, 0.72727275, 0.66666669, 0.61538464, 0.5714286 , 0.53333336, 0.5 , 0.47058824, 0.44444445, 0.42105263, 0.40000001], [ 9. , 4.5 , 3. , 2.25 , 1.79999995, 1.5 , 1.28571427, 1.125 , 1. , 0.89999998, 0.81818181, 0.75 , 0.69230771, 0.64285713, 0.60000002, 0.5625 , 0.52941179, 0.5 , 0.47368422, 0.44999999], [ 10. , 5. , 3.33333325, 2.5 , 2. , 1.66666663, 1.42857146, 1.25 , 1.11111116, 1. , 0.90909094, 0.83333331, 0.76923078, 0.71428573, 0.66666669, 0.625 , 0.58823532, 0.55555558, 0.52631581, 0.5 ]]) >>> p array([[ 2., 3., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21.], [ 3., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22.], [ 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23.], [ 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23., 24.], [ 6., 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23., 24., 25.], [ 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23., 24., 25., 26.], [ 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23., 24., 25., 26., 27.], [ 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23., 24., 25., 26., 27., 28.], [ 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23., 24., 25., 26., 27., 28., 29.], [ 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., 18., 19., 20., 21., 22., 23., 24., 25., 26., 27., 28., 29., 30.]]) Note that you have to provide the shape information for ux and uy because fortran writes them together as a stream of 400 numbers. -Neil

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SVD errors
by mtrumpis＠berkeley.edu June 4, 2013

June 4, 2013

Hello list.. I've run into two SVD errors over the last few days. Both errors are identical in numpy/scipy. I've submitted a ticket for the 1st problem (numpy ticket #990). Summary is: some builds of the lapack_lite module linking against system LAPACK (not the bundled dlapack_lite.o, etc) give a "LinAlgError: SVD did not converge" exception on my matrix. This error does occur using Mac's Accelerate framework LAPACK, and a coworker's Ubuntu LAPACK version. It does not seem to happen using ATLAS LAPACK (nor using Octave/Matlab on said Ubuntu) Just today I've come across a negative singular value cropping up in an SVD of a different matrix. This error does occur on my ATLAS LAPACK based numpy, as well as on the Ubuntu setup. And once again, it does not happen in Octave/Matlab. I'm using numpy 1.3.0.dev6336 -- don't know what the Ubuntu box is running. Here are some npy files for the two different cases: https://cirl.berkeley.edu/twiki/pub/User/MikeTrumpis/noconverge_operator.npy https://cirl.berkeley.edu/twiki/pub/User/MikeTrumpis/negsval_operator.npy Mike

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example reading binary Fortran file
by David Froger Feb. 13, 2013

Feb. 13, 2013

Hy, My question is about reading Fortran binary file (oh no this question again...) Until now, I was using the unpack module like that : def lread(f,fourBeginning,fourEnd,*tuple): from struct import unpack """Reading a Fortran binary file in litte-endian""" if fourBeginning: f.seek(4,1) for array in tuple: for elt in xrange(array.size): transpose(array).flat[elt] = unpack(array.dtype.char,f.read(array.itemsize))[0] if fourEnd: f.seek(4,1) After googling, I read that fopen and npfille was deprecated, and we should use numpy.fromfile and ndarray.tofile, but despite of the documentaion, the cookbook, the mailling list and google, I don't succed in making a simple example. Considering the simple Fortran code below what is the Python script to read the four arrrays? What about if my pc is little endian and the file big endian? I think it will be a good idea to put the Fortran writting-arrays code and the Python reading-array script in the cookbook and maybe a page to help people comming from Fortran to start with Python ? Best, David Froger program makeArray implicit none integer,parameter:: nx=10,ny=20 real(4),dimension(nx,ny):: ux,uy,p integer :: i,j open(11,file='uxuyp.bin',form='unformatted') do i = 1,nx do j = 1,ny ux(i,j) = real(i*j) uy(i,j) = real(i)/real(j) p (i,j) = real(i) + real(j) enddo enddo write(11) ux,uy write(11) p close(11) end program makeArray

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dtype '|S0' not understood
by David Warde-Farley Oct. 7, 2012

Oct. 7, 2012

Howdy, It seems it's possible using e.g. In [25]: dtype([('foo', str)])Out[25]: dtype([('foo', '|S0')]) to get yourself a zero-length string. However dtype('|S0') results in a TypeError: data type not understood. I understand the stupidity of creating a 0-length string field but it's conceivable that it's accidental. For example, it could lead to a situation where you've created that field, are missing all the data you had meant to put in it, serialize with np.save, and upon np.load aren't able to get _any_ of your data back because the dtype descriptor is considered bogus (can you guess why I thought of this scenario?). It seems that either dtype(str) should do something more sensible than zero-length string, or it should be possible to create it with dtype('| S0'). Which should it be? David

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segfault on complex array on solaris x86
by John Hunter Aug. 17, 2011

Aug. 17, 2011

johnh@udesktop253:~> gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. johnh@udesktop253:~> uname -a SunOS udesktop253 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc johnh@udesktop253:~> cat test.py import numpy as np print np.__version__ fs = 1000 t = np.linspace(0, 0.3, 301) A = np.array([2, 8]).reshape(-1, 1) f = np.array([150, 140]).reshape(-1, 1) xn = (A * np.exp(2j * np.pi * f * t)).sum(axis=0) johnh@udesktop253:~> python test.py 2.0.0.dev-9451260 Segmentation Fault (core dumped) johnh@udesktop253:~> johnh@udesktop253:~> sudo pstack /var/core/core.python.957 core '/var/core/core.python.957' of 9397: python test.py febf1928 cexp (0, 0, 0, 0, 8060ab0, 84321ac) + 1b0 fe9657e0 npy_cexp (80458e0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 84e2530) + 30 fe95064f nc_exp (8045920, 84e72a0, 8045978, 8045920, 10, 10) + 3f fe937d5b PyUFunc_D_D (84e2530, 84e20f4, 84e25b0, fe950610, 1, 0) + 5b fe95e818 PyUFunc_GenericFunction (81e96e0, 807deac, 0, 80460b8, 2, 2) + 448 fe95fb10 ufunc_generic_call (81e96e0, 807deac, 0, fe98a820) + 70 feeb2d78 PyObject_Call (81e96e0, 807deac, 0, 80a24ec, 8061c08, 0) + 28 fef11900 PyEval_EvalFrame (80a2394, 81645a0, 8079824, 8079824) + 146c fef17708 PyEval_EvalCodeEx (81645a0, 8079824, 8079824, 0, 0, 0) + 620 fef178af PyEval_EvalCode (81645a0, 8079824, 8079824, 8061488, fef3d9ee, 0) + 2f fef3d095 PyRun_FileExFlags (feb91c98, 804687b, 101, 8079824, 8079824, 1) + 75 fef3d9ee PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags (feb91c98, 804687b, 1, 80465a8, fef454a1, 804687b) + 172 fef3e4fd PyRun_AnyFileExFlags (feb91c98, 804687b, 1, 80465a8) + 61 fef454a1 Py_Main (1, 80466b8, feb1cf35, fea935a1, 29, feb96750) + 9d9 08050862 main (2, 80466b8, 80466c4) + 22 08050758 _start (2, 8046874, 804687b, 0, 8046883, 80468ad) + 60

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PyArray_ContiguousFromObject & PyDECREF
by Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon May 17, 2011

May 17, 2011

Dear pythoneers, In Chapter 12 ("Writing a C extension") in the Numerical Python manual, in the first example PyArray_ContiguousFromObject is used together with PyDECREF, while in the last example PyArray_ContiguousFromObject is used but the arrays are not PyDECREF'ed before the function returns. From Chapter 13 ("C API Reference") it seems that a PyDECREF is needed in both cases. Or am I missing something here? Is PyDECREF not needed for some reason in the last example? Thanks in advance, Michiel de Hoon U Tokyo First example: ============== static PyObject * trace(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) { PyObject *input; PyArrayObject *array; double sum; int i, n; if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O", &input)) return NULL; array = (PyArrayObject *) PyArray_ContiguousFromObject(input, PyArray_DOUBLE, 2, 2); if (array == NULL) return NULL; n = array->dimensions[0]; if (n > array->dimensions[1]) n = array->dimensions[1]; sum = 0.; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) sum += *(double *)(array->data + i*array->strides[0] + i*array->strides[1]); Py_DECREF(array); return PyFloat_FromDouble(sum); } Last example: ============= static PyObject * matrix_vector(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) { PyObject *input1, *input2; PyArrayObject *matrix, *vector, *result; int dimensions[1]; double factor[1]; double real_zero[1] = {0.}; long int_one[1] = {1}; long dim0[1], dim1[1]; extern dgemv_(char *trans, long *m, long *n, double *alpha, double *a, long *lda, double *x, long *incx, double *beta, double *Y, long *incy); if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "dOO", factor, &input1, &input2)) return NULL; matrix = (PyArrayObject *) PyArray_ContiguousFromObject(input1, PyArray_DOUBLE, 2, 2); if (matrix == NULL) return NULL; vector = (PyArrayObject *) PyArray_ContiguousFromObject(input2, PyArray_DOUBLE, 1, 1); if (vector == NULL) return NULL; if (matrix->dimensions[1] != vector->dimensions[0]) { PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "array dimensions are not compatible"); return NULL; } dimensions[0] = matrix->dimensions[0]; result = (PyArrayObject *)PyArray_FromDims(1, dimensions, PyArray_DOUBLE); if (result == NULL) return NULL; dim0[0] = (long)matrix->dimensions[0]; dim1[0] = (long)matrix->dimensions[1]; dgemv_("T", dim1, dim0, factor, (double *)matrix->data, dim1, (double *)vector->data, int_one, real_zero, (double *)result->data, int_one); return PyArray_Return(result); } -- Michiel de Hoon, Assistant Professor University of Tokyo, Institute of Medical Science Human Genome Center 4-6-1 Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-8639 Japan http://bonsai.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~mdehoon

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Problems building NumPy with GotoBLAS
by ashford＠whisperpc.com March 28, 2011

March 28, 2011

I'm having problems getting the GotoBLAS library (Nehalem optimized BLAS - "http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/gotoblas2/") working properly under the Python NumPy package ("http://numpy.scipy.org/") on a quad-core Nehalem under FC10. The command used to build the library is: make BINARY=64 USE_THREAD=1 MAX_CPU_NUMBER=4 I'm limiting this to four cores, as I believe HyperThreading will slow it down (I've seen this happen with other scientific code). I'll benchmark later to see whether or not HyperThreading helps. I built the library (it uses -fPIC), then installed it under /usr/local/lib64, and created the appropriate links: # cp libgoto2_nehalemp-r1.13.a /usr/local/lib64 # cp libgoto2_nehalemp-r1.13.so /usr/local/lib64 # cd /usr/local/lib64 # ln -s libgoto2_nehalemp-r1.13.a libgoto2.a # ln -s libgoto2_nehalemp-r1.13.so libgoto2.so # ln -s libgoto2_nehalemp-r1.13.a libblas.a # ln -s libgoto2_nehalemp-r1.13.so libblas.so Without the libblas links, the NumPy configuration used the system default BLAS library (single-threaded NetLib under FC10); it's set up for the NetLib and Atlas BLAS libraries. I used the latest release of NumPy, with no site.cfg file, and no NumPy directory ("rm -rf /usr/local/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy"). The configuration step ("python setup.py config") appears to run OK, as do the build ("python setup.py build") and install ("python setup.py install") steps. The problem is that the benchmark takes 8.5 seconds, which is what it took before I changed the library. python -c "import numpy as N; a=N.random.randn(1000, 1000); N.dot(a, a)" I expect I'm missing something really simple here, but I've spent >10 hours on it, and I have no idea as to what it could be. I've tried various permutations on the site.cfg file, all to no avail. I've also tried different names on the library, and different locations. I've even tried a set of symbolic links in /usr/local/lib64 for liblapack that point to libgoto. Could someone offer some suggestions? Thank you for your time. Peter Ashford

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Is numpy/scipy linux apt or PYPI installation linked with ACML?
by Dmitrey March 23, 2011

March 23, 2011

Hi all, I have AMD processor and I would like to get to know what's the easiest way to install numpy/scipy linked with ACML. Is it possible to link linux apt or PYPI installation linked with ACML? Answer for the same question about MKL also would be useful, however, AFAIK it has commercial license and thus can't be handled in the ways. Thank you in advance, D.

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Numpy 2.0 schedule
by Charles R Harris March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

Hi All, Just thought it was time to start discussing a release schedule for numpy 2.0 so we have something to aim at. I'm thinking sometime in the period April-June might be appropriate. There is a lot coming with the next release: the Enthought's numpy refactoring, Mark's float16 and iterator work, and support for IronPython. How do things look to the folks involved in those projects? Chuck

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