Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wrong Eigenvalue (Approximation?)

2010-05-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Gabriel Mihalache wrote: > Hello, all! I'm new to Numpy and Python so please tolerate by > ignorance on this but I'm having problems with some weird behavior. > Consider the session: > > >>> import numpy as np > >>> import numpy.linalg as la > >>> x = np.array([[0

[Numpy-discussion] Wrong Eigenvalue (Approximation?)

2010-05-15 Thread Gabriel Mihalache
Hello, all! I'm new to Numpy and Python so please tolerate by ignorance on this but I'm having problems with some weird behavior. Consider the session: >>> import numpy as np >>> import numpy.linalg as la >>> x = np.array([[0.3, 0.2, 0.5], [0.2, 0.1, 0.7], [0.9, 0.05, >>> 0.05]]).transpose() >>>

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Bug with how numpy.distutils.system_info handles the site.cfg

2010-05-15 Thread S. Chris Colbert
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 23:06 -0400, Chris Colbert wrote: > I had this problem back in 2009 when building Enthought Enable, and > was happy with a work around. It just bit me again, and I finally got > around to drilling down to the problem. > > > On linux, if one uses the numpy/site.cfg [default]

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Problems creating numpy.array with a dtype

2010-05-15 Thread Robert Kern
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:37, wrote: > So, I guess, numpy needs the distinction between list and tuples to > know what is an element. > That's from hitting at this very often, I never looked at the numpy > internals for this. This is correct. There is only so much mind-reading that numpy.array(

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Problems creating numpy.array with a dtype

2010-05-15 Thread Vincent Davis
> > the tuple (row) is one element of the structured array. It's possible > to have an n-dimensional structured array where each element is a > tuple. Also just was looking at this and while you can't do this anarray = np.array([1,2,3], dtype = [('num', int)]) you can anarray = np.array([(1,),(2,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Problems creating numpy.array with a dtype

2010-05-15 Thread josef . pktd
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > On 5/15/2010 6:30 AM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Jimmie Houchin  wrote: >>> def getArray(instrument, weekString=None): >>>      ... >>>      cur.execute(sql) >>>      weekData = cur.fetchall() >>>      w

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Problems creating numpy.array with a dtype

2010-05-15 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 5/15/2010 6:30 AM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: >> def getArray(instrument, weekString=None): >> ... >> cur.execute(sql) >> weekData = cur.fetchall() >> wdata = [] >> lst = [] >> dtminute, dttypes = createDTy

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Problems creating numpy.array with a dtype

2010-05-15 Thread josef . pktd
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > Hello, I am really liking Numpy a lot. It is wonderful to be able to do > the things that it does in a language as friendly as Python, and with > the performance Numpy delivers over standard Python. Thanks. > > I am having a problem with cr

Re: [Numpy-discussion] default behavior of argsort

2010-05-15 Thread Dr. Phillip M. Feldman
efiring wrote: > > On 05/14/2010 11:03 AM, Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: >> > It is perfectly reasonable to have an algorithm that uses values > sorted along > the last axis, even if that dimension sometimes turns out to be one. > > Eric > Excellent point! I agree. Case closed. Phillip -