[Numpy-discussion] new P3 binaries for NumPy 1.0.4 and SciPy 0.6.0

[Alan G Isaac]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Jarrod Millman apparently wrote:
> If you are having problems with NumPy and SciPy on Pentium III 
> machines running Windows, please try the newly released binaries:

I used the Python 2.5 binaries (.exe) on my home P3 and all 
seems well in use.  I got no failures of numpy.test() but 
some warnings and failures from scipy.test().  The failures
are listed below.

Comment: finding the SciPy binaries is not obvious,
since they do not show here 
<URL:http://www.scipy.org/Download#head-312ad78cdf85a9ca6fa17a266752069d23f785d1>

Thank you!
Alan Isaac




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FAIL: check_syevr (scipy.lib.tests.test_lapack.test_flapack_float)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\lib\lapack\tests\esv_tests.py", line 41, in check_syevr
    assert_array_almost_equal(w,exact_w)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line 232, in assert_array_almost_equa
l
    header='Arrays are not almost equal')
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line 217, in assert_array_compare
    assert cond, msg
AssertionError:
Arrays are not almost equal

(mismatch 33.3333333333%)
 x: array([-0.66992444,  0.48769444,  9.18222618], dtype=float32)
 y: array([-0.66992434,  0.48769389,  9.18223045])

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FAIL: check_syevr_irange (scipy.lib.tests.test_lapack.test_flapack_float)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\lib\lapack\tests\esv_tests.py", line 66, in check_syevr_
irange
    assert_array_almost_equal(w,exact_w[rslice])
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line 232, in assert_array_almost_equa
l
    header='Arrays are not almost equal')
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line 217, in assert_array_compare
    assert cond, msg
AssertionError:
Arrays are not almost equal

(mismatch 33.3333333333%)
 x: array([-0.66992444,  0.48769444,  9.18222618], dtype=float32)
 y: array([-0.66992434,  0.48769389,  9.18223045])

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FAIL: check_bicg (scipy.linalg.tests.test_iterative.test_iterative_solvers)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\linalg\tests\test_iterative.py", line 57, in check_bicg
    assert norm(dot(self.A, x) - self.b) < 5*self.tol
AssertionError

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FAIL: check_bicgstab (scipy.linalg.tests.test_iterative.test_iterative_solvers)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\linalg\tests\test_iterative.py", line 69, in check_bicgs
tab
    assert norm(dot(self.A, x) - self.b) < 5*self.tol
AssertionError

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FAIL: check_cgs (scipy.linalg.tests.test_iterative.test_iterative_solvers)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\linalg\tests\test_iterative.py", line 63, in check_cgs
    assert norm(dot(self.A, x) - self.b) < 5*self.tol
AssertionError

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FAIL: test_fromimage (scipy.misc.tests.test_pilutil.test_pilutil)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\misc\tests\test_pilutil.py", line 34, in test_fromimage
    assert img.min() >= imin
AssertionError

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FAIL: test_imresize (scipy.misc.tests.test_pilutil.test_pilutil)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\misc\tests\test_pilutil.py", line 18, in test_imresize
    assert_equal(im1.shape,(11,22))
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line 137, in assert_equal
    assert_equal(len(actual),len(desired),err_msg,verbose)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line 145, in assert_equal
    assert desired == actual, msg
AssertionError:
Items are not equal:
 ACTUAL: 0
 DESIRED: 2

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Ran 1719 tests in 73.656s

FAILED (failures=7)
<unittest._TextTestResult run=1719 errors=0 failures=7>