[Cython] Buffer interface to boolean arrays with cast=True on Python 2.5 failing

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 10/24/2011 09:26 PM, Wes McKinney wrote:
> I've been using
>
> ndarray[uint8_t, cast=True] bool_arr
>
> to work with dtype=bool arrays in Cython lately. When testing using
> Python 2.5 / NumPy 1.6.1 on Windows, I'm getting "unknown dtype code
> in numpy.pxd (0)". Everything works fine with Python 2.6/2.7 and NumPy
> 1.6.1. This is with Cython 0.15.1.
>
> Any advice or do I have to (very unhappily) work around this?

Is this a recent bug in Cython? Try to bisect the the Cython release 
(and if it turns out to be Cython, possible commit).

Dag Sverre