[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] NumPy test failing

Jim Hugunin hugunin@mit.edu
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:54:58 -0500


Brien Barton writes:
> I installed the new NumPy 1.0b1 on an SGI system and tried to run the
> test_all.py script.  It gets an error on the test that tries to verify 
that,
> if a is an array, then array(a) returns a copy of a.  The lines from
> test_items.py are:
>
>     b = array(a)
>     b[0] = 66
>     a[0]
>     >0
>
> This test is apparently trying to verify that after the line "b = 
array(a)",
> b and a are two different objects, but on my system they are the same.
> Anyone else seeing this?

This is a bug related to the new support I added to the array function for 
keyword arguments.  If you use b = array(a, copy=1) explicitly this will 
work.  Otherwise, I've fixed this and it shouldn't be a problem in the next 
beta release.

-Jim


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