Mailman 3 October 2025 - NumPy-Discussion

making numpy.org Plausible analytics public
by Inessa Pawson Dec. 3, 2025

Dec. 3, 2025

Hi, all! In 2022, after much research and discussion with the NumPy maintainers and active contributors, we replaced Google Analytics with Plausible, an open source lightweight alternative that doesn’t collect personal data and provides the option for self-hosting. A dashboard for numpy.org (the part that runs on Hugo) was set up on the Scientific Python Project server. For the past three years, insights derived from the available website traffic data have helped prioritize the efforts of the NumPy documentation and translation teams. To better understand user needs for the NumPy documentation (generated with Sphinx), this month, we also added a Plausible script to the numpy/numpy repository. We are now considering making the dashboards public so that the collected data is available to the broader contributor community. If you have any questions or concerns, please share your feedback by December 1st. -- Cheers, Inessa Inessa Pawson GitHub: inessapawson

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next NumPy community meeting - Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 at 5 pm UTC - now meeting ONE HOUR EARLIER
by Inessa Pawson Dec. 1, 2025

Dec. 1, 2025

The next NumPy community meeting will be held this Wednesday, April 9th at 17:00 (5 pm) UTC. Please note the TIME CHANGE! Join us via Zoom: https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/83278611437?pwd=ekhoLzlHRjdWc0NOY2FQM0NPemdk… Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. To add to the meeting agenda the topics you’d like to discuss, follow the link: https://hackmd.io/76o-IxCjQX2mOXO_wwkcpg?both For the notes from the previous meetings, visit: https://github.com/numpy/archive/tree/main/community_meetings -- Cheers, Inessa Inessa Pawson GitHub: inessapawson

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next NumPy Optimization Team meeting - Monday, January 20th, 2025 at 5 pm UTC
by Inessa Pawson Nov. 28, 2025

Nov. 28, 2025

Hi, all! The next NumPy Optimization Team meeting will be held on Monday, January 20th at 17:00 UTC. Join us via Zoom: https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/81261288210?pwd=iwV99tGSjR61RTGEERKM4QKxe46g… Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. To add to the meeting agenda the topics you’d like to discuss, follow the link: https://hackmd.io/dVdSlQ0TThWkOk0OkmGsmw?both For the notes from the previous meetings, visit: https://github.com/numpy/archive/tree/main/optim_team_meetings -- Cheers, Inessa Inessa Pawson GitHub: inessapawson

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ENH: Add a non-circular shift function
by Carlos Martin Nov. 23, 2025

Nov. 23, 2025

Feature request: Add a non-circular shift function that is similar to [`numpy.roll`](https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.roll.html) but, instead of wrapping elements around, replaces unoccupied entries with a specified fill value. Examples: ``` >>> import numpy as np >>> a = np.arange(1, 6) >>> a array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) >>> np.shifted(a, 2) array([0, 0, 1, 2, 3]) >>> np.shifted(a, -2) array([3, 4, 5, 0, 0]) >>> a = np.arange(1, 10).reshape((3, 3)) >>> a array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]) >>> np.shifted(a, (1, -2), (0, 1)) array([[0, 0, 0], [3, 0, 0], [6, 0, 0]]) ``` Prior discussion: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/26220 Pull request: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/29389

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next NumPy triage meeting - Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 at 5 pm UTC
by Inessa Pawson Nov. 23, 2025

Nov. 23, 2025

The next NumPy triage meeting will be held this Wednesday, May 28th at 17:00 (5 pm) UTC. This is a meeting where we synchronously triage prioritized PRs and issues. Everyone is welcome to attend and contribute to a conversation. Join us via Zoom: https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/82096749952?pwd=MW9oUmtKQ1c3a2gydGk1RTdYUUVX… Please notify us of issues or PRs that you’d like to have reviewed by adding a GitHub link to them in the meeting agenda: https://hackmd.io/68i_JvOYQfy9ERiHgXMPvg -- Cheers, Inessa Inessa Pawson GitHub: inessapawson

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Replace nan-ignoring functions with an ignore_nan flag to their normal counterparts
by Carlos Martin Oct. 25, 2025

Oct. 25, 2025

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dropping Intel x86-64 wheels for the next release?
by Ralf Gommers Oct. 23, 2025

Oct. 23, 2025

Hi all, GitHub Actions has deprecated the macos-13 image [1], which was the last image to support Intel x86-64 runners. As a result, we won't be able to use our current wheel build setup. A quick sampling of what others are doing with their support policies: CPython dropped it to Tier 2 [2], Anaconda dropped support [3], conda-forge hasn't decided anything yet [4], PyTorch dropped support already 1.5 years ago [5], Numba is dropping wheels [6]. We will of course continue to accept issues and PR and keep things working for macOS x86-64 either way, just like for many other platforms that either don't have good CI support available or are more niche and for which we don't supply wheels to begin with. However, for wheels we do ship on PyPI, it seems like there should be high enough demand and a good case. It would probably be possible to cross-compile and test x86-64 wheels on arm64 runners with Rosetta. There are a number of downsides to that though, from extra maintenance load, slower CI (the x86-64 builds are already the slowest ones except for PyPy which we'll drop soon as well), and some things potentially not being testable/tested (e.g., the translation to arm code under the hood won't actually exercise SIMD code I'd think). Shipping official wheels that aren't normally testable feels a bit questionable. It's easy enough nowadays to pick older wheels by the user, and `pip install numpy --no-binary` will continue to work just fine. And given that support across the ecosystem will very likely quickly fall away, it feels like effort that could be better spent elsewhere. Hence I'd like to propose to drop macOS x86-64 wheels for the 2.4.0 release series. Cheers, Ralf [1] https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-11-upcoming-changes-to-macos-hosted-r… [2] https://discuss.python.org/t/dropping-intel-mac-to-tier-2/102100/1 [3] https://www.anaconda.com/blog/intel-mac-package-support-deprecation [4] https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/2467 [5] https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/pytorch-macos-x86-builds-deprecation-star… [6] https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10187

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Improving the Thread Safety of NumPy's Test Suite
by Britney Whittington Oct. 17, 2025

Oct. 17, 2025

Hello! My name is Britney Whittington, and I'm an intern at Quansight working with Nathan Goldbaum. This is my first time working with an open-source project like NumPy, and I'm excited to be here! For my project, I am working on making the NumPy test suite more thread safe, to improve its support of Python's free-threaded build of Python 3.14. To do this, I have been using `pytest-run-parallel` [1]. You can see the README of the plugin for more details, but briefly it runs each test in a test suite many times in a thread pool. This exercise results in failures in the test suite, often due to thread-safety issues in pytest itself, or thread-safety issues with NumPy due to use of global state in the NumPy implementation. As we work on making the test suite more thread safe, we have exposed thread safety issues in NumPy. Party of the difficulty of using `pytest-run-parallel` is that Pytest itself and the constructs provided by it are not thread safe [2], so it takes some effort to make a test suite as big as NumPy's run under `pytest-run-parallel` without any failures. We've already merged some work along these lines. You may have seen some PRs I've submitted so far related to this project [3]. We are getting close to turning on `pytest-run-parallel` in CI. Before we do that, we want to make sure there aren't any objections. So far, I've made two major changes to the test suite: ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Refactoring xunit Setup and Teardown Methods ---------------------------------------------------- #### Problem - NumPy makes heavy use of pytest's xunit setup and teardown methods [4], which are mentioned in the testing guidelines [5]. - When using `pytest-run-parallel`, pytest will try to run the teardown before all threads complete running a test. #### Solutions - Replace setup/teardown with fixtures. While fixtures play more nicely with threads, they are still shared between threads. If one thread mutates a fixture, this mutation will carry over to all the other threads. Additionally, dependency injection via a fixture is fundamentally *hard to debug and understand at a glance*. - Use **explicit setup**. Instead of pytest calling setup methods, we modify the setup methods to be manually called in each test. This fixes the teardown issue, and allows us to declare variables locally and not worry about mutations between threads. Currently we are favoring the usage of explicit setup. Of course, this may not work for every xunit setup. For more complex cases, fixtures may be more useful, or context managers. ------------------------------------------- 2. Refactoring Global np.random Calls ------------------------------------------- #### Problem - Calls to `np.random` use the same global instance. This results in errors with tests that heavily rely on seeded results, due to threads sharing the same global RNG state. While this may not necessarily cause failures, we also feel that it's a fundamentally bad practice for tests to rely on global state like this. #### Solution - Instead of `np.random`, each test should use a local instance of `np.random.RandomState`, so that threads can increment through their own local RNG stream. I have made this change to the tests that fail under `pytest-run-parallel` [7], and am working on making all test calls to `np.random` local. Note that `RandomState` uses the same MT RNG that the global RNG uses, so the RNG streams are the same as before. =============================== ----------------------------------------- > What Does This Mean Going Forward? ----------------------------------------- By refactoring the test suite to be more thread safe, if we'd like to add `pytest-run-parallel` CI, contributors may need to write tests in a somewhat different style. It is possible for `pytest-run-parallel` to fix some of these issues on its side, such as making it so xunit setup runs properly. However, with the current state of pytest and the plugin, this will require a lot of work, time, and maintenance. It also may make it more difficult to improve the thread safety of pytest itself in the future. See this issue [8] for further discussion. We think that a refactor of the NumPy test suite is more straightforward for now, and can always be reverted once `pytest-run-parallel` develops a way to handle thread-unsafe setup fixtures. -------------------- > Testing Guidelines -------------------- In addition to make the tests thread safe, I'd like to update the testing guidelines [9]. Some things can be clarified (such as NumPy's opinion on fixture usage) and it would be good to update it with current best practices, and, if folks are open to it, guidelines on writing thread-safe tests. [1] https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/pytest-run-parallel [2] https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/explanation/flaky.html#thread-safety [3] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/29552 (mentioned by all PRs related to this project) [4] https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/xunit_setup.html [5] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/testing.html#easier-setup-and-teardo… [6] https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/explanation/fixtures.html [7] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/29729 [8] https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/pytest-run-parallel/issues/14 [9] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/testing.html

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Numpy 2.3.4 released
by Charles R Harris Oct. 16, 2025

Oct. 16, 2025

Hi All, On behalf of the NumPy team, I'm pleased to announce the release of NumPy 2.3.4. The NumPy 2.3.4 release is a patch release split between a number of maintenance updates and bug fixes. This release supports Python 3.11-3.14. Wheels can be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/2.3.4>; release notes and the changelog are available on Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v2.3.4>. *Contributors* A total of 17 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. - !DWesl - Charles Harris - Christian Barbia + - Evgeni Burovski - Joren Hammudoglu - Maaz + - Mateusz Sokół - Matti Picus - Nathan Goldbaum - Ralf Gommers - Riku Sakamoto + - Sandeep Gupta + - Sayed Awad - Sebastian Berg - Sergey Fedorov + - Warren Weckesser - dependabot[bot] *Pull requests merged* A total of 30 pull requests were merged for this release. - #29725: MAINT: Prepare 2.3.x for further development - #29781: MAINT: Pin some upstream dependences - #29782: BLD: enable x86-simd-sort to build on KNL with -mavx512f - #29783: BUG: Include python-including headers first (#29281) - #29784: TYP: fix np.number and np.\*integer method declaration - #29785: TYP: mypy 1.18.1 - #29788: TYP: replace scalar type __init__ with __new__ - #29790: BUG: Fix ``dtype`` refcount in ``__array__`` (#29715) - #29791: TYP: fix method declarations in floating, timedelta64, and datetime64 - #29792: MAINT: delete unused variables in unary logical dispatch - #29797: BUG: Fix pocketfft umath strides for AIX compatibility (#29768) - #29798: BUG: np.setbufsize should raise ValueError for negative input - #29799: BUG: Fix assert in nditer buffer setup - #29800: BUG: Stable ScalarType ordering - #29838: TST: Pin pyparsing to avoid matplotlib errors. - #29839: BUG: linalg: emit a MemoryError on a malloc failure (#29811) - #29840: BLD: change file extension for libnpymath on win-arm64 from .a... - #29864: CI: Fix loongarch64 CI (#29856) - #29865: TYP: Various typing fixes - #29910: BUG: Fix float16-sort failures on 32-bit x86 MSVC (#29908) - #29911: TYP: add missing ``__slots__`` (#29901) - #29913: TYP: wrong argument defaults in ``testing._private`` (#29902) - #29920: BUG: avoid segmentation fault in string_expandtabs_length_promoter - #29921: BUG: Fix INT_MIN % -1 to return 0 for all signed integer types... - #29922: TYP: minor fixes related to ``errstate`` (#29914) - #29923: TST: use requirements/test_requirements across CI (#29919) - #29926: BUG: fix negative samples generated by Wald distribution (#29609) - #29940: MAINT: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1 - #29949: STY: rename @classmethod arg to cls - #29950: MAINT: Simplify string arena growth strategy (#29885) Cheers, Charles Harris

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next NumPy New Contributors' Hour - Thursday, October 16th, 2025 at 10 pm UTC
by Inessa Pawson Oct. 14, 2025

Oct. 14, 2025

Our next New Contributors' Hour will be held this Thursday, October 16th at 10 pm UTC. Stop by to ask questions, share your progress, or just to say hi. To add to the meeting agenda the topics you’d like to discuss, follow the link: https://hackmd.io/3f3otyyuTte3FU9y3QzsLg?both Join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82563808729?pwd=ZFU3Z2dMcXBGb05YemRsaGE1OW5nQT09 -- Cheers, Inessa Inessa Pawson GitHub: inessapawson

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