[Numpy-discussion] TypeError when writing .data with python 2.5.1

[Glen W. Mabey]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:38:28AM -0500, Glen W. Mabey wrote:
> The following works fine with a python 2.4.3 installation, but with
> 2.5.1 I get:
> 
> 
> In [1]:import numpy
> 
> In [2]:fid = file( '/tmp/tfile', 'w' )
> 
> In [3]:fid.write( numpy.zeros( 55 ).data )
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>             Traceback (most recent call last)
> 
> /home/gmabey/src/R9619_dev_acqlibweb/Projects/R9619_NChannelDetection/NED/<ipython console> in <module>()
> 
> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: non-character (or 8-bit) array cannot be interpreted as character buffer
> > <ipython console>(1)<module>()
> 
> 
> I haven't tried it with python 2.5


Oh, and I'm using numpy from svn, updated this morning.