[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.7.2rc1 release

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Derek Homeier <
derek at astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:

> On 13.11.2013, at 3:07AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Python 2.4 fixes at  https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4049.
>
> Thanks for the fixes; builds under OS X 10.5 now as well. There are two
> test errors (or maybe as nose problem?):
>
> NumPy version 1.7.2rc1
> NumPy is installed in
> /sw/src/fink.build/root-numpy-py24-1.7.2rc1-1/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy
> Python version 2.4.4 (#1, Jan  5 2011, 03:05:41) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc.
> build 5493)]
> nose version 1.3.0
> ...
> ERROR: Failure: SkipTest (Skipping test: test_special_values
> Numpy is using complex functions (e.g. sqrt) provided by yourplatform's C
> library. However, they do not seem to behave accordingto C99 -- so C99
> tests are skipped.)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/nose/failure.py", line 37, in
> runTest
>     if isinstance(self.exc_val, BaseException):
> NameError: global name 'BaseException' is not defined
>
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: Failure: SkipTest (Skipping test: test_special_values
> Numpy is using complex functions (e.g. sqrt) provided by yourplatform's C
> library. However, they do not seem to behave accordingto C99 -- so C99
> tests are skipped.)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/nose/failure.py", line 37, in
> runTest
>     if isinstance(self.exc_val, BaseException):
> NameError: global name 'BaseException' is not defined
>
>
>
Ha, BaseException is new in Python 2.5. This looks like a nose problem,
maybe it is too recent ;) What nose version are you using?

Chuck
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