[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.7.0b2 release

[Frédéric Bastien]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Frédéric Bastien <nouiz at nouiz.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tested this new beta on Theano and discovered an interface change
>> that was not there in the beta 1.
>>
>> New behavior:
>> numpy.ndindex().next()
>> (0,)
>>
>> Old behavior:
>> numpy.ndindex().next()
>> ()
>>
>> This break some Theano code that look like this:
>>
>> import numpy
>> shape=()
>> out_shape=[12]
>> random_state=numpy.random.RandomState()
>>
>> out = numpy.zeros(out_shape, int)
>> for i in numpy.ndindex(*shape):
>>     out[i] = random_state.permutation(5)
>>
>>
>> I suppose this is an regression as the only mention of ndindex in the
>> first email of this change is that it is faster.
>>
>
> I think this problem has been brought up on the list. It is interesting that
> it turned up after the first beta. Could you do a bisection to discover
> which commit is responsible?

I'll check that. Do I need to reinstall numpy from scratch everytimes
or is there a better way to do that?

Fred