[Cython] python 2.7/3.x and numpy-dev (Dag, I need a quick comment)

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 02/17/2011 07:11 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> I'm working on a patch to get old, recent, and dev NumPy working in
> 2.7/3.x. So far, I had success, but I still have two failures like the
> one pasted below.
>
> Dag, could you elaborate a bit about the purpose of
> __Pyx_BufFmt_CheckString() ? It is just a validity check for pep 3118
> format strings? Do you expect the failure below to be hard to fix?s.

Yes, it compares the string with the RTTI that is saved for the type 
that is expected by the code.

I remember there was something about the '=' specifier that meant it was 
not completely trivial to fix, but still, it's just about doing it. The 
code in question is a bit convoluted; the reason I did that is because I 
wanted to allow things to match if the binary layouts matched even if 
the 'struct structure' wasn't the same...

As for user code, a quick hack around this is 'cast=True' in the  buffer 
spec.

Please file a bug...

Dag Sverre

> Just in case, the format string that triggers the failure is:
>
>>>> memoryview(np.zeros((1,), dtype=np.dtype('b,i', align=False))).format
> 'T{b:f0:=i:f1:}'
>
>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: numpy_test ()
> Doctest: numpy_test
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/local/python/3.2/lib/python3.2/doctest.py", line 2113, in runTest
>      raise self.failureException(self.format_failure(new.getvalue()))
> AssertionError: Failed doctest test for numpy_test
>    File "/u/dalcinl/Devel/Cython/cython/BUILD/run/c/numpy_test.cpython-32dm.so",
> line 1, in numpy_test
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> File "/u/dalcinl/Devel/Cython/cython/BUILD/run/c/numpy_test.cpython-32dm.so",
> line 155, in numpy_test
> Failed example:
>      print(test_packed_align(np.zeros((1,), dtype=np.dtype('b,i', align=False))))
> Exception raised:
>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>        File "/usr/local/python/3.2/lib/python3.2/doctest.py", line 1248, in __run
>          compileflags, 1), test.globs)
>        File "<doctest numpy_test[64]>", line 1, in<module>
>          print(test_packed_align(np.zeros((1,), dtype=np.dtype('b,i',
> align=False))))
>        File "numpy_test.pyx", line 404, in numpy_test.test_packed_align
> (numpy_test.c:6367)
>      ValueError: Buffer packing mode currently only allowed at
> beginning of format string (this is a defect)
>
>