Re: [Numpy-discussion] ticket 2228: Scientific package seeing ABI change in 1.6.x

2012-11-04 Thread Travis Oliphant
On Nov 4, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > The NPY_CHAR is not a "real type". There are no type-coercion functions > attached to it nor ufuncs nor a f

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ticket 2228: Scientific package seeing ABI change in 1.6.x

2012-11-04 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > >> The NPY_CHAR is not a "real type". There are no type-coercion functions >> attached to it nor ufuncs nor a full dtype object. However, it is used >> to mimic old Nume

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ticket 2228: Scientific package seeing ABI change in 1.6.x

2012-10-31 Thread Thouis (Ray) Jones
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > [...] > P.S. that ticket has escaped the Github move. The github move only included up to 2225 or so. Anything after that will have to be imported when Trac is redirected to github. I believe David Cournapeau is going to do that at some poi

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ticket 2228: Scientific package seeing ABI change in 1.6.x

2012-10-31 Thread Charles R Harris
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > The NPY_CHAR is not a "real type". There are no type-coercion functions > attached to it nor ufuncs nor a full dtype object. However, it is used > to mimic old Numeric character arrays (especially for copying a string). > > It should

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ticket 2228: Scientific package seeing ABI change in 1.6.x

2012-10-30 Thread Travis Oliphant
The NPY_CHAR is not a "real type". There are no type-coercion functions attached to it nor ufuncs nor a full dtype object. However, it is used to mimic old Numeric character arrays (especially for copying a string). It should have been deprecated before changing the ABI. I don't think

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ticket 2228: Scientific package seeing ABI change in 1.6.x

2012-10-30 Thread Charles R Harris
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > Hi, > > Ticket 2228 says ABI was broken in 1.6.x. Specifically, NPY_CHAR in the > NPY_TYPES enum seems to be have been moved. Can anyone comment on why the 3 > datetime related values were inserted instead of appended? > I don't know, althoug

[Numpy-discussion] ticket 2228: Scientific package seeing ABI change in 1.6.x

2012-10-30 Thread Ralf Gommers
Hi, Ticket 2228 says ABI was broken in 1.6.x. Specifically, NPY_CHAR in the NPY_TYPES enum seems to be have been moved. Can anyone comment on why the 3 datetime related values were inserted instead of appended? Ralf P.S. that ticket has escaped the Github move. __