[Numpy-discussion] 1.5 release schedule proposal

[Christopher Barker]

Pauli Virtanen wrote:
> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:37:56 -0600, Jed Ludlow wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
>>> One low-hanging fruit to fix could be np.fromfile raising MemoryError
>>> when it encounters EOF, and other bugs in that part of the code.
>> The EOF bug in np.fromfile may already be fixed:
>>
>> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1152
> 
> Ok, so nothing needs to be done to that, then.

Maybe not with that bug, but there are a number of others -- fromfile() 
really needs some attention (for text reading, anyway). I got as far as 
identifying some issues, but got a bit lost in the depth of complex C 
and numpy's abstraction of types (template system?).

These are a couple relevant tickets;

http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/909
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/883

Sorry, I'm really, really, busy right now, so can't work on this at this 
point, but there is a lot of info in this thread from a while back:

http://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discussion@scipy.org/msg22853.html

There is a bit of a mixture of desired features and bugs in there -- I 
started by wanting to add features but found bugs -- I suppose you can 
argue about bugs vs. features here, I think the issues are mostly 
behavior when the input data is malformed in some way, but the fixed are 
hard because I what I think are bugs -- i.e. an error state is not 
propagated properly.

Anyway, it would be great is someone could look at this, but it is ugly, 
so I'm not holding my breath!

-Chris





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