[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: [Scipy-chaco] scipy/chaco package for OSX

[Lance Boyle]

This message appeared a few days ago on the scipy-chaco list. I hope  
the author doesn't mind me forwarding it to this list.

Jerry



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jeffrey.S.Whitaker@noaa.gov
> Date: Wed Apr 23, 2003  09:46:21 America/Phoenix
> To: scipy-chaco@scipy.org
> Subject: [Scipy-chaco] scipy/chaco package for OSX
> Reply-To: scipy-chaco@scipy.org
>
>
> Hi all:
>
> I've updated the fink (http://fink.sf.net)  scipy package - it now
> includes a working chaco using wxpython/wxgtk!
>
> The gtk/wxpython interface seems a bit peppier and more robust than the
> native OS X interface at this point.
>
> To install it, update your package descriptions from cvs ("fink
> selfupdate-cvs"), enable the unstable tree
> (http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable) and "fink
> install scipy-py23".
>
> Right now the package is only available for python23.
>
>
> BTW:  Here is what I get from scipy.test() on OS 10.2.5 with  
> python-2.3a2
>
> Ran 739 tests in 18.147s
>
> FAILED (failures=70, errors=2)
>
> There are a lot of failures like this:
>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: check_cdf (test_distributions.test_tukeylambda)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 10, in check_cdf
> AssertionError: D = NaN; pval = NaN; alpha = 0.01
> args = (1.2585851608415324,)
>
> from test.distributions
>
> and
>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: check_nd (test_function_base.test_all)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/sw/src/root-scipy-py23-20030415-2/sw/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ 
> scipy_base/tests/test_function_base.py",
> line 38, in check_nd
>   File
> "/sw/src/root-scipy-py23-20030415-2/sw/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ 
> scipy_test/testing.py",
> line 390, in assert_array_equal
> AssertionError:
> Arrays are not equal:
>
> from test_function_base.
>
>
>  -Jeff
>
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