Re: [Numpy-discussion] www.numpy.org home page

2012-12-13 Thread klo
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:35:01 +0100, Travis Oliphant wrote: > The NumPy home page can still be edited in this repository: > g...@github.com:numpy/numpy.org.git. Pull requests are always welcome > --- especially pull requests that improve the look and feel of the > web-page. Hi, let me

[Numpy-discussion] Attaching metadata to dtypes: what's the best way?

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Collette
Hi all, I have a question for the list sparked by this discussion of a bug in NumPy 1.6.2 and 1.7: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-December/064682.html and this open issue in h5py: https://code.google.com/p/h5py/issues/detail?id=217 In h5py we need to represent variable l

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Raul Cota
+1 from me For what is worth, we are just moving forward from Python 2.2 / Numeric and are going to 2.6 and it has been rather painful because of the several little details of extensions and other subtleties. I believe we will settle there for a while. For companies like ours, it is a big pro

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread Olivier Delalleau
2012/12/13 Chris Barker - NOAA Federal > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Bradley M. Froehle > wrote: > > Yes, but the point was that since you can live with an older version on > > Python you can probably live with an older version of NumPy. > > exactly -- also: > > How likely are you to nee th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Failure in test_iterator.py at Travis

2012-12-13 Thread Ondřej Čertík
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Ondřej Čertík >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Another weird bug sometimes happen in >>> numpy/core/tests/test_iterator.py, it looks

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Failure in test_iterator.py at Travis

2012-12-13 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Ondřej Čertík wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Another weird bug sometimes happen in >> numpy/core/tests/test_iterator.py, it looks like this: >> >> ===

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Failure in test_iterator.py at Travis

2012-12-13 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Ondřej Čertík wrote: > Hi, > > Another weird bug sometimes happen in > numpy/core/tests/test_iterator.py, it looks like this: > > == > FAIL: test_iterator.test_iter_array_cast > ---

[Numpy-discussion] Failure in test_iterator.py at Travis

2012-12-13 Thread Ondřej Čertík
Hi, Another weird bug sometimes happen in numpy/core/tests/test_iterator.py, it looks like this: == FAIL: test_iterator.test_iter_array_cast -- Traceback (most r

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Bradley M. Froehle wrote: > Yes, but the point was that since you can live with an older version on > Python you can probably live with an older version of NumPy. exactly -- also: How likely are you to nee the latest and greatest numpy but not a new PyGTK, or a n

[Numpy-discussion] Travis failures with no errors

2012-12-13 Thread Ondřej Čertík
Hi, I found these recent weird "failures" in Travis, but I can't find any problem with the log and all tests pass. Any ideas what is going on? https://travis-ci.org/numpy/numpy/jobs/3570123 https://travis-ci.org/numpy/numpy/jobs/3539549 https://travis-ci.org/numpy/numpy/jobs/3369629 Ondrej _

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread Bradley M. Froehle
Yes, but the point was that since you can live with an older version on Python you can probably live with an older version of NumPy. On Thursday, December 13, 2012, David Cournapeau wrote: > > > I"m still dumfounded that people are working on projects where they > > are free to use the latest an g

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ValueError: low level cast function is for unequal type numbers

2012-12-13 Thread Christoph Gohlke
On 12/13/2012 1:57 PM, Andrew Collette wrote: > Hi, > >> the following code using np.object_ data types works with numpy 1.5.1 >> but fails with 1.6.2. Is this intended or a regression? Other data >> types, np.float64 for example, seem to work. > > I am also seeing this problem; there was a change

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: How about dropping support for python 2.5 also? > > I"m still dumfounded that people are working on projects where they > are free to use the latest an greatest numpy, but *have* to use a > more-than-four-year-old-python: I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ValueError: low level cast function is for unequal type numbers

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Collette
Hi, > the following code using np.object_ data types works with numpy 1.5.1 > but fails with 1.6.2. Is this intended or a regression? Other data > types, np.float64 for example, seem to work. I am also seeing this problem; there was a change to how string types are handled in h5py 2.1.0 which tri

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
>>> How about dropping support for python 2.5 also? I"m still dumfounded that people are working on projects where they are free to use the latest an greatest numpy, but *have* to use a more-than-four-year-old-python: """ Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. """ so +1 on moving

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Calling LAPACK function dbdsqr()?

2012-12-13 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Dec 13, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Philip Semanchuk > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I'm porting some Fortran code that makes use of a number of BLAS and >> LAPACK functions, including dbdsqr(). I've found all of the functions I >> need via scipy.li

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Calling LAPACK function dbdsqr()?

2012-12-13 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Dec 13, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > 13.12.2012 21:26, Philip Semanchuk kirjoitti: >> I'm porting some Fortran code that makes use of a number of BLAS and >> LAPACK functions, including dbdsqr(). I've found all of the functions >> I need via scipy.linalg.lapack.get_lapack_funcs/ge

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Bradley M. Froehle < > brad.froe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Targeting >= 2.6 would be preferable to me. Several other packages >> including IPython, support only Python >= 2.6, >= 3.2. >> >> This chan

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Calling LAPACK function dbdsqr()?

2012-12-13 Thread Pauli Virtanen
13.12.2012 21:26, Philip Semanchuk kirjoitti: > I'm porting some Fortran code that makes use of a number of BLAS and > LAPACK functions, including dbdsqr(). I've found all of the functions > I need via scipy.linalg.lapack.get_lapack_funcs/get_blas_funcs() except > for dbdsqr(). [clip] If you toler

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Calling LAPACK function dbdsqr()?

2012-12-13 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > Hi all, > I'm porting some Fortran code that makes use of a number of BLAS and > LAPACK functions, including dbdsqr(). I've found all of the functions I > need via scipy.linalg.lapack.get_lapack_funcs/get_blas_funcs() except for > dbdsqr(

[Numpy-discussion] Calling LAPACK function dbdsqr()?

2012-12-13 Thread Philip Semanchuk
Hi all, I'm porting some Fortran code that makes use of a number of BLAS and LAPACK functions, including dbdsqr(). I've found all of the functions I need via scipy.linalg.lapack.get_lapack_funcs/get_blas_funcs() except for dbdsqr(). I see that the numpy source code (I looked at numpy-1.6.0b2) c

Re: [Numpy-discussion] site.cfg: Custom BLAS / LAPACK configuration

2012-12-13 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
On 12/13/2012 07:59 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn > wrote: >> One way of fixing this I'm sort of itching to do is to create a >> "pylapack" project which can iterate quickly on these build issues, >> run-time selection of LAPACK backend and so o

Re: [Numpy-discussion] site.cfg: Custom BLAS / LAPACK configuration

2012-12-13 Thread David Cournapeau
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > One way of fixing this I'm sort of itching to do is to create a > "pylapack" project which can iterate quickly on these build issues, > run-time selection of LAPACK backend and so on. (With some templates > generating some Cython code i

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: >> >> The previous proposal to drop python 2.4 support garnered no opposition. >> How about dropping support for python 2.5 also? >> >> Chuck >> > > matplotlib 1.2 supports py2.5.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread Benjamin Root
My apologies... we support 2.6 and above. +1 on dropping 2.5 support. Ben On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Charles R Harris < > charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The previous proposal to drop python 2.4 support garnered no oppositio

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > The previous proposal to drop python 2.4 support garnered no opposition. > How about dropping support for python 2.5 also? > > Chuck > > matplotlib 1.2 supports py2.5. I haven't seen any plan to move off of t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] site.cfg: Custom BLAS / LAPACK configuration

2012-12-13 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
On 12/07/2012 07:58 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > One way of fixing this I'm sort of itching to do is to create a > "pylapack" project which can iterate quickly on these build issues, > run-time selection of LAPACK backend and so on. (With some templates > generating some Cython code it shouldn

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread Olivier Delalleau
I'd say it's a good idea, although I hope 1.7.x will still be maintained for a while for those who are still stuck with Python 2.4-5 (sometimes you don't have a choice). -=- Olivier 2012/12/13 Charles R Harris > The previous proposal to drop python 2.4 support garnered no opposition. > How abou

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Jonathan T. Niehof
On 12/13/2012 09:39 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > As a point of reference, python 2.4 is on RH5/CentOS5. While RH6 is the > current version, there are still enterprises that are using version 5. > Of course, at this point, one really should be working on a migration > plan and shouldn't be doing new d

[Numpy-discussion] Support for python 2.4 dropped. Should we drop 2.5 also?

2012-12-13 Thread Charles R Harris
The previous proposal to drop python 2.4 support garnered no opposition. How about dropping support for python 2.5 also? Chuck ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Bradley M. Froehle wrote: > Targeting >= 2.6 would be preferable to me. Several other packages > including IPython, support only Python >= 2.6, >= 3.2. > > This change would help me from accidentally writing Python syntax which is > allowable in 2.6 & 2.7 (but n

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Bradley M. Froehle
Targeting >= 2.6 would be preferable to me. Several other packages including IPython, support only Python >= 2.6, >= 3.2. This change would help me from accidentally writing Python syntax which is allowable in 2.6 & 2.7 (but not in 2.4 or 2.5). Compiling a newer Python interpreter isn't very h

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Sturla Molden
Yes, and ditto for SciPy. With dropped 2.4 support we can also use the new memoryview syntax instead of ndarray syntax in Cython. That is more important for SciPy, but it has some relevance for NumPy too. Sturla Sendt fra min iPad Den 13. des. 2012 kl. 17:34 skrev Charles R Harris : > Time t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Skipper Seabold
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: > I would even go as far as dropping 2.5 as well then (RHEL 6 > uses python 2.6). +1 Skipper ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > Time to raise this topic again. Opinions welcome. I am ok if 1.7 is the LTS. I would even go as far as dropping 2.5 as well then (RHEL 6 uses python 2.6). cheers, David ___ NumPy-Discussion mai

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Frédéric Bastien
+1, especially if this is for 1.8. What is the plan for when it will be released? It is 1.7 that will be the long term supported version? Fred On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Anthony Scopatz wrote: > +1, if someone wants to use an older version of Python they can use an older > version of nump

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Anthony Scopatz
+1, if someone wants to use an older version of Python they can use an older version of numpy. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > A big +1 from me --- but I don't have anyone I know using 2.4 anymore > > -Travis > > On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Charles R Harris wrot

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Benjamin Root
As a point of reference, python 2.4 is on RH5/CentOS5. While RH6 is the current version, there are still enterprises that are using version 5. Of course, at this point, one really should be working on a migration plan and shouldn't be doing new development on those machines... Ben Root _

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to drop python 2.4 support in numpy 1.8

2012-12-13 Thread Travis Oliphant
A big +1 from me --- but I don't have anyone I know using 2.4 anymore -Travis On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Charles R Harris wrote: > Time to raise this topic again. Opinions welcome. > > Chuck > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discus

[Numpy-discussion] www.numpy.org home page

2012-12-13 Thread Travis Oliphant
For people interested in the www.numpy.org home page: Jon Turner has officially transferred the www.numpy.org domain to NumFOCUS. Thank you, Jon for this donation and for being a care-taker of the domain-name. We have setup the domain registration to point to numpy.github.com and I've ch

Re: [Numpy-discussion] non-integer index misfeature?

2012-12-13 Thread Neal Becker
I'd be happy with disallowing floating point index at all. I would think it was almost always a mistake. ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion