[Numpy-discussion] distutils issue - python 3.1 on windows

[Pauli Virtanen]

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:34:15 +0800, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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> I haven't started using py3k yet so I'm still a bit fuzzy about bytes
> vs string. But it's easy to try in the interpreter:
> 
>>>> import re
>>>> RE_VERSION = re.compile('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)') 

In the Python 3.1 version I have, this line reads

    RE_VERSION = re.compile(b'(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)')

which makes it a byte-regular expression.

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> That works, thanks. Then there's was still one more problem, _dotblas.c
> was not py3k ready.

Doh! How did I miss that (answer: no tests, and the import error is 
masked :)

> With this fix I can build everything under Wine:
> http://github.com/rgommers/numpy/tree/build-py3k Does that look fine?

It compiles, but will probably crash on import :) You need also to return 
the module object, see e.g. how it's done in numpy/numarray/_capi.c

I committed a fixed version.

Cheers,
Pauli