[Cython] Failure with asarray(memoryview) on Python 2.4

[mark florisson]

On 11 June 2012 20:08, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This doesn't work on Python 2.4 (works on >= 2.5):
>
> ------------
> cimport numpy as np
> import numpy as np
>
> def _foo():
>    cdef double[:] a
>    a = np.array([1.0])
>    return np.asarray(a)
>
> def foo():
>    print _foo()
> ------------
>
> Spotted when using Cython 1.6 in Scipy. Results to:
>
> Python 2.4.6 (#1, Nov 20 2010, 00:52:41)
> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import fail
>>>> fail.foo()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  File "fail.pyx", line 10, in fail.foo (fail.c:1776)
>    print _foo()
>  File "fail.pyx", line 7, in fail._foo (fail.c:1715)
>    return np.asarray(a)
>  File
> "/usr/local/stow/python-easy-install//lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/core/numeric.py",
> line 235, in asarray
>    return array(a, dtype, copy=False, order=order)
>  File "stringsource", line 366, in
> View.MemoryView.memoryview.__getitem__ (fail.c:5975)
>  File "stringsource", line 650, in View.MemoryView._unellipsify
> (fail.c:9236)
> TypeError: Cannot index with type '<type 'int'>'
>
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Hey Pauli,

Yeah, there was some weird bug with PyIndex_Check() not operating
properly. Could you retry with the latest master?

Mark