Numeric C extension: bug or error ?

[David M. Cooke]

At some point, veronique.grosse at wanadoo.fr (Philippe Grosse) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't understand this strange behaviour:
>
> I compile this code :
[code clipped; it looks good]
...
>    /* registration table  */
>    static struct PyMethodDef testMethods[] = {
>       {"return_vector", return_vector, 1},       /* method name, C
>                                                     funcptr, always-tuple */
>       {NULL, NULL}                   /* end of table marker */
>    };

Instead of the magic constant "1", use METH_VARARGS.

...
> Very simple: this module takes a Numeric array (vector) as argument and
> send this array back to python...
>
> If I compile it under macOSX, the result in python is:
>
>>>> import test
>>>> from Numeric import *
>>>> v=array([1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0],Float)
>>>> v
> array([ 1.,  2.,  3.,  4.])
>>>> test.return_vector(v)
> array([ 1.,  2.,  3.,  4.])
>
> but in linux the result is:
>
>>>> import test
>>>> from Numeric import *
>>>> v=array([1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0],Float)
>>>> v
> array([ 1.,  2.,  3.,  4.])
>>>> test.return_vector(v)
> array([ 1.+0.j,  2.+0.j,  3.+0.j,  4.+0.j])

This isn't what I get; I get the same result under linux as you get
from Mac OS X. Have you checked that the copies of the code are the
same?

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