[Cython] Buffer interface to boolean arrays with cast=True on Python 2.5 failing

[Wes McKinney]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
<d.s.seljebotn at astro.uio.no> wrote:
> On 10/24/2011 09:26 PM, Wes McKinney wrote:
>>
>> I've been using
>>
>> ndarray[uint8_t, cast=True] bool_arr
>>
>> to work with dtype=bool arrays in Cython lately. When testing using
>> Python 2.5 / NumPy 1.6.1 on Windows, I'm getting "unknown dtype code
>> in numpy.pxd (0)". Everything works fine with Python 2.6/2.7 and NumPy
>> 1.6.1. This is with Cython 0.15.1.
>>
>> Any advice or do I have to (very unhappily) work around this?
>
> Is this a recent bug in Cython? Try to bisect the the Cython release (and if
> it turns out to be Cython, possible commit).
>
> Dag Sverre
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I'll check the HEAD revision and bisect if I can, don't have a lot of
time-- it's just strange that it's Python 2.5 only.