[Numpy-discussion] 1.1 dev on the trunk and the road to 1.2

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Eric Firing wrote:
> Jarrod Millman wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Charles R Harris
>> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I was getting ready to add a big code cleanup, so you lucked out ;) Let's
>>> get this release out as quickly as possible once masked arrays are ready to
>>> go.
>>>       
>> What is left to do for the masked arrays?  Just want to make sure I
>> haven't missed something.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>     
>
> Masked arrays: the only thing I know of as a possibility is the 
> suggestion that the new code be accessible with a DeprecationWarning 
> from numpy.core as well as from numpy.  I'm neutral on this, and will 
> not try to implement it.
>
> All is not yet well in matrix land; the end of the numpy.test() output is:
>
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: check_array_from_matrix_list 
> (numpy.core.tests.test_defmatrix.TestNewScalarIndexing)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File 
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/tests/test_defmatrix.py", 
> line 194, in check_array_from_matrix_list
>      x = array([a, a])
> ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.
>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: check_dimesions 
> (numpy.core.tests.test_defmatrix.TestNewScalarIndexing)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File 
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/tests/test_defmatrix.py", 
> line 190, in check_dimesions
>      assert_equal(x.ndim, 1)
>    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/testing/utils.py", 
> line 145, in assert_equal
>      assert desired == actual, msg
> AssertionError:
> Items are not equal:
>   ACTUAL: 2
>   DESIRED: 1
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 1004 tests in 1.534s
>
> FAILED (failures=1, errors=1)
> Out[2]:<unittest._TextTestResult run=1004 errors=1 failures=1>
>   

I'm aware of these errors.   I will try to clean them up soon by fixing 
the dimension reduction assumption mistakes.

-Travis