bug in python/numarray

[Robert Kern]

meng at are.berkeley.edu wrote:
> Hi, there,
> 
> I got different results by running the same lines of code on windows and 
> debian. Here is the code:
> 
> a = kroneckerproduct(ones((4195,1)), identity(12))
> print a.mean()
> 
> This works perfectly well in windows but it gave the following error while 
> running it in debian:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numarray/numarraycore.py", line 
> 1137, in mean
>      return self.sum()/(self.nelements()*1.0)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numarray/numarraycore.py", line 
> 1133, in sum
>      return ufunc.add.reduce(ufunc.add.areduce(self, type=type).flat, 
> type=type)
> IndexError: too many indices.
> 
> But if I reduce the number 4195 to 419, it works. Is it a bug in Python or 
> Numarray? Can someone help me figure it out? BTW, the python version is 2.4.1

It's almost certainly numarray. I don't get an error on OS X with the 
latest CVS of numarray. Please try the latest CVS on your platforms, and 
if you still get this error, then post it to the numarray mailing list. 
Thanks!

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