[Numpy-discussion] Status of NumPy and Python 3.3

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.certik at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Here is the code in defchararray.py:
>
>
> 1911            if not _globalvar and self.dtype.char not in 'SUbc':
> 1912                raise ValueError("Can only create a chararray from
> string data.")
> 1913
> 1914        def __getitem__(self, obj):
> 1915            val = ndarray.__getitem__(self, obj)
> 1916 ->         if issubclass(val.dtype.type, character) and not _len(val) == 0:
> 1917                temp = val.rstrip()
> 1918                if _len(temp) == 0:
> 1919                    val = ''
> 1920                else:
> 1921                    val = temp
>
>
> and here is some debugging info:
>

Python 3.3:

>
> (Pdb) p self
> (Pdb) p obj
> (0, 0)
> (Pdb) p val
> 'abc'
> (Pdb) p type(val)
> <class 'str'>

Python 3.2:

(Pdb) p self
chararray([['abc', '123'],
       ['789', 'xyz']],
      dtype='<U3')
(Pdb) p obj
(0, 0)
(Pdb) p val
'abc'
(Pdb) p type(val)
<class 'numpy.str_'>


So I think there might be some conversion issues int the chararray,
that instead of using numpy.str_, it uses Python's str.
Weird.

Ondrej