On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sebastian Seberg has fixed one class of test failures due to the indexing
>> changes in numpy 1.9.0b1.  There are some remaining errors, and in the case
>> of the Matplotlib failures, they look to me to be Matplotlib bugs. The 2-d
>> arrays that cause the error are returned by the overloaded
>> _interpolate_single_key function in CubicTriInterpolator that is
>> documented in the base class to return a 1-d array, whereas the actual
>> dimensions are of the form (n, 1). The question is, what is the best
>> work around here for these sorts errors? Can we afford to break Matplotlib
>> and other packages on account of a bug that was previously accepted by
>> Numpy?
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It depends how bad the break is, but in principle I'd say that breaking
Matplotlib is not OK.


> Perhaps a FutureWarning rather than an error would be more appropriate at
>> this point, and that modification would be easy to make.
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Sounds like a good idea then.

Ralf


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>> Thoughts?
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> I'll add that all of the remaining test failures, with the possible
> exception of the Tables errors, look like bugs to me. The Tables errors
> result from the fact that in fancy indexing assignment into 1-d array the
> right hand side used to be repeated until sufficient values for the
> assignment were available. Not sure what to do about that.
>
> Chuck
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