Re: [Numpy-discussion] Different behavior for astype('str') in numpy 1.5.1 vs 1.6.0?

2011-02-21 Thread Pauli Virtanen
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:03:43 -0500, Skipper Seabold wrote: [clip] > I had to reinstall scipy, matplotlib, etc. when I changed from 1.6.0 > back to 1.5.1. Yes, it should be backward compatible (you should be able use binaries compiled with 1.5.1 on 1.6.0), but not forward compatible (binaries com

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Different behavior for astype('str') in numpy 1.5.1 vs 1.6.0?

2011-02-21 Thread Skipper Seabold
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:09:05 -0500, Skipper Seabold wrote: > [clip] >> Should I file a ticket? > > Yes. http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1748 > > [clip] >> PS. Is there an incompatibility of numpy 1.5.1 and numpy 1.6.0 trunk for >> p

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Different behavior for astype('str') in numpy 1.5.1 vs 1.6.0?

2011-02-21 Thread Pauli Virtanen
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:09:05 -0500, Skipper Seabold wrote: [clip] > Should I file a ticket? Yes. [clip] > PS. Is there an incompatibility of numpy 1.5.1 and numpy 1.6.0 trunk for > packages that depend on numpy? It should be binary compatible. -- Pauli Virtanen ___

[Numpy-discussion] Different behavior for astype('str') in numpy 1.5.1 vs 1.6.0?

2011-02-21 Thread Skipper Seabold
I get a lot of errors and failures running our tests with most recent numpy trunk. One in particular (so far) seems to be a bug. In [1]: import numpy as np In [2]: np.__version__ Out[2]: '1.6.0.dev-c50af53' In [3]: tmp_arr = np.array([['black'],['white'],['other']]) In [4]: tmp_arr.astype('str'

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.5.1 - Mac - with Activestate Python 3

2011-02-21 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
Hi, Just wanted to respond to http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/42084 *CORTESI: I have installed ActiveState's Python 3 packages on Mac OS X 10.6.6. [...] What can I do to persuade numpy to install? Must I build it from sourceto get it to use Python 3? RALF: [...] there

[Numpy-discussion] ANN: ViTables 2.1 released!

2011-02-21 Thread Vicent Mas
=== Announcing ViTables 2.1 === After a long period retired from development activities I'm happy to come back and present ViTables 2.1, the latest release of this viewer for PyTables/HDF5 files. As it happens with the entire PyTables family, the main stren