Fernando Perez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Christopher Barker > <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >>> We are speaking of potentially several hundred files. It's part of the >>> scientific work of the user of the last nine years... >> Let's hope he's got some tests! > > Yup. I converted a very complex code from Numeric to numpy years ago > (around the numpy 1.0 release timeframe), and it was a single (long, > intense and focused) day's work. But that was thanks to a very solid > test suite that let me be systematic and dumb about the whole thing > (careful, but dumb).
Yes, we can compare the outputs with existing data, that was created with the current scripts. Still: It's all manual work as these are all individual scripts to process scientific data. > With no good test coverage, let's just say that the OP's colleague is > in for a personal replay of the painful minefield scene in the BAT*21 > movie :) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094712] Great movie, isn't it? :-) frank _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
