[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] ValueError: function not supported

[Jim Hugunin]

Dietmar writes:
>
> When using NumPy I always get an error
> "ValueError: function not supported".
>
> An example is included at the end.
>
>
> Any ideas what could have gone wrong?
>
> The System I'm using is Acorn RISC OS.

This error is being caused by the function "a+1".  The reason for it is 
that the table of basic functions for arrays has somehow not been loaded in 
your system.  This behavior is very peculiar as your "from Numeric import 
*" should handle this.  As a test, I'd try doing an explicit "import umath" 
and a
>>> dir(umath)
['__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__version__', 'absolute', 'add', 
'arccos', 'arcsin', 'arctan', 'arctan2', 'boolean_and', 'boolean_or', 
'boolean_xor', 'ceil', 'conjugate', 'cos', 'cosh', 'divide', 'divide_safe', 
'e', 'equal', 'exp', 'fabs', 'floor', 'fmod', 'greater', 'greater_equal', 
'hypot', 'invert', 'left_shift', 'less', 'less_equal', 'log', 'log10', 
'logical_and', 'logical_not', 'logical_or', 'logical_xor', 'maximum', 
'minimum', 'multiply', 'negative', 'not_equal', 'pi', 'power', 'remainder', 
'right_shift', 'sin', 'sinh', 'sqrt', 'subtract', 'tan', 'tanh']

If you don't get what I show here, then something's very wrong.

My best guess is that you've somehow created another module called umath 
that is confusing python's importer.  Is there any chance of this?

Are you using the 1.0beta2 release?  Are you using dynamic libraries or did 
you build in the source tree?

-Jim


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