[SciPy-User] qHull zero division error, scipy 0.10.1, linux

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:42 AM, David Baddeley <david_baddeley at yahoo.com.au
> wrote:

> I get a zero division error following error when trying to use the qHull
> bindings in scipy.spatial, e.g.
>
> In [8]: from scipy.spatial import qhull
> In [9]: qhull.Delaunay(randn(100, 2))
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ZeroDivisionError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
> /home/david/<ipython console> in <module>()
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/scipy-0.10.1-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/scipy/spatial/qhull.so
> in scipy.spatial.qhull.Delaunay.__init__ (scipy/spatial/qhull.c:4109)()
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/scipy-0.10.1-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/scipy/spatial/qhull.so
> in scipy.spatial.qhull._construct_delaunay (scipy/spatial/qhull.c:1344)()
> ZeroDivisionError: float division
>
> All the tests involving the qhull module also fail with the same error if
> I run scipy.test().
>
> full system details below:
>
> NumPy version 1.6.2
> NumPy is installed in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy-1.6.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/numpy
> SciPy version 0.10.1
> SciPy is installed in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/scipy-0.10.1-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/scipy
> Python version 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41) [GCC 4.4.3]
> nose version 1.1.2
> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x64
>
> both numpy and scipy were installed using easy_install.
>
> before I download the source and start messing with qhull.pyx / the qhull
> sources themselves. I thought I'd ask if there were any known bugs / clues.
>

I can't reproduce this with current master and it doesn't look familiar.
There were some fixes to qhull though for 0.11, so I'd check first if those
fixed your issue.

Ralf
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