[Numpy-discussion] numpy 2.0, what else to do?

[Xavier Gnata]

On 02/13/2010 10:15 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Xavier Gnata <xavier.gnata at gmail.com
> <mailto:xavier.gnata at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/13/2010 09:28 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote:
>     > We will most likely have experimental py3 support in 2.0.
>     >
>     > If you, or someone else wishes to help bringing 2.0 to fully
>     work with Py3, now is a very good time to step up.
>     >
>     > How to give a hand:
>     >
>     > 1. Get my latest py3 branch from
>     http://github.com/pv/numpy-work/tree/py3k
>     >
>     > Read doc/py3k.txt
>     >
>     > 2. Get py3 branch of nose (see doc/py3k.txt in the branch).
>     >
>     > 3. Build numpy, and run unit tests (build with
>     "NPY_SEPARATE_BUILD=1 python3 setup.py build", numscons is not
>     supported at the moment).
>     >
>     > 4. Fix bugs revealed by the unit tests. Currently, C code is
>     mostly ported, so you can probably also help only by writing
>     Python. There are about 100 test failures (of 2400) left.
>     >
>     > Many test failures occur also because the tests are wrong. For
>     instance: the numpy I/O requires bytes, but some tests supply it
>     unicode strings -> need changes in tests.
>     >
>     > One useful thing to do is to help with the str/bytes transition
>     on the python side. Since the same code must work with pythons
>     from 2.4 to 3.0 (for 3 it's automatically run through 2to3 on
>     build), there are some helpers in numpy.compat.py3k for helping
>     with this. See several previous commits on the branch on that.
>     >
>     > Another useful thing could be to port an existing numpy-using
>     code to py3 and test if it works with the current py3k branch,
>     what fails, and if the failures are already revealed by unit
>     tests. Even if it does not work at the moment, having it at hand
>     will help testing the rc when it comes. This, because I wouldn't
>     completely rely on our unit test coverage.
>     >
>     > Finally, try to write some PEP 3118 using code, and check how it
>     works. (You can use python >= 2.6 for this if you get numpy from
>     the py3k branch.)
>     >
>     >
>     Well I don't know where I should report that but your branch doesn't
>     compile with python3.1:
>     numpy/core/blasdot/_dotblas.c: In function
>     ‘dotblas_matrixproduct’:
>     numpy/core/blasdot/_dotblas.c:404: error: ‘PyArrayObject’ has no
>     member
>     named ‘ob_type’
>     numpy/core/blasdot/_dotblas.c:404: error: ‘PyArrayObject’ has no
>     member
>     named ‘ob_type’
>     numpy/core/blasdot/_dotblas.c:407: error: ‘PyArrayObject’ has no
>     member
>     named ‘ob_type’
>
>     and so on...
>
>
>     AFAICS, it is easy to fix using the Py_TYPE macro.
>
>     For instance:
>     -  if (ap1->ob_type != ap2->ob_type) {
>     + if (Py_TYPE(ap1) != Py_TYPE(ap2)) {
>
>
> Pauli fixed a lot of those. Did you remove the old build directory and
> all that stuff?
>
> Chuck
>
Well I ran git clone git://github.com/pv/numpy-work.git an hour ago (in
an empty directory)

Xavier

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