I'm having almost exactly the same problem, but with Python 2.6.1, Numpy 1.2.1, and Nose 0.11.3. Nobody responded to TJ the first time around, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: T J <tjhnson <at> gmail.com> Subject: Test failures on 2.6 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.numeric.general Date: 2008-10-05 20:53:22 GMT (2 years, 6 weeks, 1 day, 13 hours and 32 minutes ago) Hi, I'm getting a couple of test failures with Python 2.6, Numpy 1.2.0, Nose 0.10.4: nose version 0.10.4 ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................F................K.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .............................................................................................................................................................................................. ......./share/home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/lib/tests/test_io.py:68: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses? assert(c.readlines(), ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................./share/home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/ma/tests/test_core.py:1315: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses? assert(store._mask, True) /home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/ma/tests/test_core.py:1322: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses? assert(store._mask, True) /home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/ma/tests/test_core.py:1989: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses? assert(test.mask, [0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]) ...............................................E................................................................................................................................................................................ ====================================================================== ERROR: Tests the min/max functions with explicit outputs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/ma/tests/test_core.py", line 653, in test_minmax_funcs_with_output result = npfunc(xm,axis=0,out=nout) File "/home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py", line 1525, in amin return amin(axis, out) File "/home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/ma/core.py", line 2978, in min np.putmask(out, newmask, np.nan) ValueError: cannot convert float NaN to integer ====================================================================== FAIL: test_umath.TestComplexFunctions.test_against_cmath ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nose-0.10.4-py2.6.egg/nose/case.py", line 182, in runTest self.test(*self.arg) File "/home/me/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/tests/test_umath.py", line 268, in test_against_cmath assert abs(a - b) < atol, "%s %s: %s; cmath: %s"%(fname,p,a,b) AssertionError: arcsin 2: (1.57079632679-1.31695789692j); cmath: (1.57079632679+1.31695789692j) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1726 tests in 8.856s FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=1, errors=1, failures=1) <nose.result.TextTestResult run=1726 errors=1 failures=1>