[SciPy-User] Disable singular matrix warning

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Carlos Baptista
<carlossbaptista at gmail.com>wrote:

> I had not tried it before. But I did it just now and it did not work
> unfortunately.
>
> That's because sparse/linalg/dsolve/umfpack/umfpack.py contains:

          if econd > self.maxCond:
              print 'warning: (almost) singular matrix! '\
                    + '(estimated cond. number: %.2e)' % econd

We have to change that to use the warnings module. For now all you can do
is comment out those 3 lines in your installed version of scipy.

Ralf


> On 12 August 2012 23:47, Paweł Kwaśniewski <pawel.kw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Have you tried the simplest example from
>> http://docs.python.org/library/warnings.html
>>
>> import warnings
>>
>>
>> with warnings.catch_warnings():
>>     warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
>>
>> And then your function call?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paweł
>>
>>
>> 2012/8/12 Carlos Baptista <carlossbaptista at gmail.com>
>>
>>>  Hello there,
>>>
>>> I am fairly new to Python. As a self-test I re-programmed an old MATLAB
>>> assignment in Python using NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib. At a certain point
>>> I am getting the following warning:
>>>
>>> warning: (almost) singular matrix! (estimated cond. number: 1.87e+14)
>>>
>>> This result is however expected and therefore I would like to disable
>>> this warning. I am getting this warning from:
>>>
>>> scipy.sparse.linalg.spsolve(A,b)
>>>
>>> where A has a large condition number.
>>>
>>> I have already tried the following to no avail:
>>>
>>> ========================
>>>
>>> import warnings
>>>
>>>
>>> with warnings.catch_warnings():
>>>
>>>     warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",category=Warning)
>>>
>>>     from poisson import solvePoisson
>>>
>>>
>>> ========================
>>>
>>>
>>> where solvePoisson is the function (located in poisson.py) in which the
>>> above solve statement is executed.
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I disable this singular matrix warning?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With kind regards,
>>>
>>> Carlos
>>>
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>
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