[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.5.0 beta 2

[Michael Droettboom]

On 08/17/2010 08:10 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Charles R Harris 
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.harris at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Michael Droettboom
>     <mdroe at stsci.edu <mailto:mdroe at stsci.edu>> wrote:
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>         I'm getting one unit test error on SunOS 5.8 UltraSPARC 5,
>         with  Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-14 2004/02/20:
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>         ======================================================================
>         ERROR: test_ldexp (test_umath.TestLdexp)
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>           File
>         "/home/mdroe/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/tests/test_umath.py",
>         line 388, in test_ldexp
>             assert_almost_equal(ncu.ldexp(np.array(2., np.longdouble),
>         np.array(3, np.int16)), 16.)
>         TypeError: function not supported for these types, and can't
>         coerce safely to supported types
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>         Any thoughts?
>
>         Mike
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>     Does it worki for other SunOS versions? Can you pin down a bit
>     more which types work and which not? I suspect that the longdouble
>     may be a problem, but that's just because quad precision is mostly
>     a Sun (Oracle?) thing.
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> It's http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1499. Fixed for Windows in 
> r8625, can you check if the same fix works on SunOS?
This fix does not seem to resolve the test.

Mike

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Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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