[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: Strange behaviour with make.

[tim@lassi.ece.uiuc.edu]

I though I'd mention this to see if anyone else had this problem:

When I first tried to make the Numeric, 
make Makefile -f Makefile.pre.in
sent my machine into infinite loop.

I mucked around a bit and got it to work. However, when I tried to
recreate it I got stumped. Once I unpacked it fresh and it looped
again. When I copied the Makefile.pre.in from the working version of
NumPy over, it worked.

"AH HA! I just need to dof a diff and I'll know the problem."  So I
did a diff against the original and there was NO DIFFERENCE. So I
unpacked NumPy again into another directory and this time it worked.
And it worked several more times. So now I'm stumped.

Did anyone else see this? 


On a different note: zeros is sort of uninformative if you give it a
number instead of a tuple (an easy mistake...).
>>> from Numeric import *
>>> zeros(5)
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: __len__
>>> zeros((5))
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: __len__
>>> zeros((5,))
0 0 0 0 0


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	-tim

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| Tim Hochberg               Ultrahigh Speed Digital Electronics Lab |
| tim@lassi.ece.uiuc.edu              University of Illinois         |
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