[Numpy-discussion] Release blockers for 1.4.0 ?

Skipper Seabold jsseabold at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 11:53:24 EST 2009


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:24 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There are a few issues which have been found on numpy 1.4.0, which worry
>> me:
>>
>> # 1317: segfaults for integer division overflow
>> # 1318: all FPU exceptions ignored by default
>>
>> #1318 worries me the most: I think it is a pretty serious regression,
>> since things like this go unnoticed:
>>
>> x = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4]) / 0 # x is an array of 0, no warning printed
>>
>
> Hasn't that always been the case? Unless we have a way to raise exceptions
> from ufuncs I don't know what else we can do.
>

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