[Numpy-discussion] [EXTERNAL] Re: Strange PyArray_FromObject() behavior

[Bill Spotz]

Chuck,

I provided a little more context in another email.  The user is using numpy 1.6.1 with python 2.6.  I asked him to try an earlier version -- we'll see how it goes.  This is code that has worked for a long time.  It still works on my laptop and on our test platforms.

The behavior on the user's system appears to be consistent, as far as I can tell.

-Bill

On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:50 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Spotz, William F <wfspotz at sandia.gov> wrote:
> I have a user who is reporting tests that are failing on his platform.  I have not been able to reproduce the error on my system, but working with him, we have isolated the problem to unexpected results when PyArray_FromObject() is called.  Here is the chain of events:
> 
> In python, an integer is calculated.  Specifically, it is
> 
>     len(result.errors) + len(result.failures)
> 
> where result is a unit test result object from the unittest module.  I had him verify that this value was in fact a python integer.  In my extension module, this PyObject gets passed to the PyArray_FromObject() function in a routine that comes from numpy.i.  What I expect, and what I typically get, is a numpy scalar array of type C long.  I had my user print the result using PyObject_Print() and what he got was
> 
>     array([0:00:00], dtype=timedelta64[us])
> 
> 
> That's strange. Is the output always a zero and the type a timedelta64? In the absence of better info I'd quess a stray pointer or, unlikely, byte order. The numpy version would be nice to know. If you have an old version of numpy you could also give it a shot to see what happens.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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