[Numpy-discussion] Silencing NumPy output

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Frédéric Bastien <nouiz at nouiz.org>wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> NumPy 1.8 removed the private NumPy interface
>>> numpy.distutils.__config__. So a Theano user make a PR to make Theano
>>> use the official interface:
>>>
>>> numpy.distutils.system_info.get_info("blas_opt")
>>>
>>> But this output many stuff to the output. I can silence part of it by
>>> silencing warnings, but I'm not able to silence this output:
>>>
>>> Found executable /usr/bin/gfortran
>>> ATLAS version 3.8.3 built by mockbuild on Wed Jul 28 02:12:34 UTC 2010:
>>>    UNAME    : Linux x86-15.phx2.fedoraproject.org 2.6.32-44.el6.x86_64
>>> #1 SMP Wed Jul 7 15:47:50 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>    INSTFLG  : -1 0 -a 1
>>>    ARCHDEFS : -DATL_OS_Linux -DATL_ARCH_Corei7 -DATL_CPUMHZ=1596
>>> -DATL_SSE3 -DATL_SSE2 -DATL_SSE1 -DATL_USE64BITS -DATL_GAS_x8664
>>>    F2CDEFS  : -DAdd_ -DF77_INTEGER=int -DStringSunStyle
>>>    CACHEEDGE: 524288
>>>    F77      : gfortran, version GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20100716 (Red
>>> Hat 4.5.0-3)
>>>    F77FLAGS : -O -g -Wa,--noexecstack -fPIC -m64
>>>    SMC      : gcc, version gcc (GCC) 4.5.0 20100716 (Red Hat 4.5.0-3)
>>>    SMCFLAGS : -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse3 -O2
>>> -fno-schedule-insns2 -g -Wa,--noexecstack -fPIC -m64
>>>    SKC      : gcc, version gcc (GCC) 4.5.0 20100716 (Red Hat 4.5.0-3)
>>>    SKCFLAGS : -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse3 -O2
>>> -fno-schedule-insns2 -g -Wa,--noexecstack -fPIC -m64
>>>
>>> -L/opt/lisa/os_v2/canopy/appdata/canopy-1.1.0.1371.rh5-x86_64/../../appdata/canopy-1.1.0.1371.rh5-x86_64/lib
>>> -lptf77blas -lptcblas -latlas
>>>
>>> I tried to redirect the stdout and stderr, but it don't work. I looked
>>> into NumPy code and I don't see a way to change that from a library
>>> that use NumPy.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to access to silence that output?
>>>
>>> Is there a new place of the old interface: numpy.distutils.__config__
>>> that I can reuse? It don't need to be a public interface.
>>>
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>> Looks like the problem is in numpy/distutils/exec_command.py and
>> numpy/distutils/log.py. In particular, it looks like a logging problem and
>> I'd guess it may be connected to the debug logs. Also, looks like
>> numpy.distutils.log inherits from distutils.log, which may be obsolete. You
>> might get some control of the log with an environment variable, but the
>> function itself looks largely undocumented. That said, it should probably
>> be printing to stderror when run from the command line.
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> In numpy/distutils/__init__.py line 886  try changing
> log.set_verbosity(-2) to log.set_verbosity(2)
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> OK, that isn't right.

Chuck
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