[Numpy-discussion] ANN: Numpy 1.6.0 release candidate 2

[Charles R Harris]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Derek Homeier <
derek at astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:

> Hi Ralf,
>
> > I am pleased to announce the availability of the second release
> > candidate of NumPy 1.6.0.
> >
> > Compared to the first release candidate, one segfault on (32-bit
> > Windows + MSVC) and several memory leaks were fixed. If no new
> > problems are reported, the final release will be in one week.
>
> I found a problem apparently related to string handling on MacOS X
> 10.5/ppc with Python3 - not a new one though, at least it seemed to
> be present with 1.6.0b2:
>
> >>> numpy.test('full')
> Running unit tests for numpy
> NumPy version 1.6.0rc2
> 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' '
>
> All the previous failures on ppc are gone now, and with Python2.[4567] all
> tests are passing!
> On Intel MacOS X (10.5/i386 and 10.6/x86_64) everything is OK for Python
> 2.5-3.2 as well.
>
>
Looks like Fortran. Maybe we should lst the Fortran compiler when the full
test suite is run.
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