[Numpy-discussion] ANN: Numpy 1.6.1 release candidate 1

[Derek Homeier]

On 13.06.2011, at 6:19PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:

> 
>> I used wget using the direct link and it eventually got the complete
>> file after multiple tries.
>> 
> Yes, SF is having a pretty bad day. 
> 
I eventually also got the tarball through the fink/debian mirror list; no 
failures on OS X 10.5 i386. There are two different failures with Python3.x on ppc,
gfortran 4.2.4, that were already present in 1.6.0 and still are on master however:

>>> numpy.test('full')
Running unit tests for numpy
NumPy version 1.6.1rc1
NumPy is installed in /sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy
Python version 3.2 (r32:88445, Mar  1 2011, 18:28:16) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)]
nose version 1.0.0
...
======================================================================
FAIL: test_return_character.TestF77ReturnCharacter.test_all
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 188, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/f2py/tests/test_return_character.py", line 78, in test_all
    self.check_function(getattr(self.module, name))
  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/f2py/tests/test_return_character.py", line 12, in check_function
    r = t(array('ab'));assert_( r==asbytes('a'),repr(r))
  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/testing/utils.py", line 34, in assert_
    raise AssertionError(msg)
AssertionError: b' '

======================================================================
FAIL: test_return_character.TestF90ReturnCharacter.test_all
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 188, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/f2py/tests/test_return_character.py", line 136, in test_all
    self.check_function(getattr(self.module.f90_return_char, name))
  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/f2py/tests/test_return_character.py", line 12, in check_function
    r = t(array('ab'));assert_( r==asbytes('a'),repr(r))
  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/testing/utils.py", line 34, in assert_
    raise AssertionError(msg)
AssertionError: b' '

(both errors are raised on the first function tested, t0).

Cheers,
						Derek