[Numpy-discussion] Questions about fixes for 1.9.0rc2

[Sebastian Berg]

On Sa, 2014-07-05 at 22:13 -0400, Benjamin Root wrote:
> Drats... I actually know those two topics... and I might have free
> time tomorrow afternoon at SciPy. Maybe I could take a peek at it?
> 

Maybe if you have time. It is just the attempt_1d_fallback function in
the pull request https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4804
This is called only after the normal indexing code gave an exception
already and maybe we can make the warnings more informative.

- Sebastian

> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Sebastian Berg
> <sebastian at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>         On Sa, 2014-07-05 at 00:41 +0100, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>         > On 5 Jul 2014 00:07, "Charles R Harris"
>         <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
>         
>         
>         <snip>
>         >
>         > That is a massive pile of affected projects :-(.
>         >
>         > My worry is that if all these projects we know about are
>         broken, then
>         > how many other codebases that we aren't testing are also
>         broken?
>         >
>         
>         
>         Yeah, I would imagine quite a few might be. It isn't that I
>         guess many
>         used the "feature" deliberately, but it is easy to just code
>         it and
>         assume that the code is correct since it works. So I think I
>         will just
>         need to fix it. The pull request *should* already do this with
>         a band
>         aid-solution, by just falling back to the old funky stuff if
>         there is a
>         failure. If someone is good with python exception handling and
>         string
>         formatting in C, please feel free to have a look ;).
>         
>         - Sebastian
>         
>         > > If the issues are fixed in matplotlib and pandas I'd be
>         inclined to
>         > release as is with a mention of versions in the release
>         notes.
>         >
>         > Even if it's fixed in pandas master, how long until it's in
>         user's
>         > hands?
>         >
>         > -n
>         >
>         > > Chuck
>         > >
>         > >
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