Unit test error with numpy rc3

[Tim Hochberg]

Travis Oliphant wrote:
> Tim Hochberg wrote:
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>> Travis Oliphant wrote:
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>>> Tim Hochberg wrote:
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>>>> Rudolph van der Merwe wrote:
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>>>>> I get the following error with RC3 on a RHE Linux box:
>>>>>
>>>>> Python 2.4.3 (#4, Mar 31 2006, 12:12:43)
>>>>> [GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)] on linux2
>>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>  
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>>>>>        
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>>>>>           
>>>>>>>> import numpy
>>>>>>>> numpy.__version__
>>>>>>>>        
>>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>> '1.0rc3'
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>>>> On a visual studio build, I'm getting a real failure though:
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>>>>    FAIL: Ticket #112
>>>>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>      File
>>>>    "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\tests\test_regression.py",
>>>>    line 219, in check_longfloat_repr
>>>>        assert(str(a)[1:9] == str(a[0])[:8])
>>>>    AssertionError
>>>>
>>>> The code in question is dependent on the spelling of INF(or at least the 
>>>> *length* of the spelling) on a given platform which is why it's failing. 
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>>> Actually, you shouldn't be getting an INF at all.    This is what the 
>>> test is designed to test for (so I guess it's working).  The test was 
>>> actually written wrong and was never failing because previously keyword 
>>> arguments to ufuncs were ignored. 
>>>
>>> Can you show us what 'a' is on your platform.
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>>>       
>> Sure:
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>>     
>>>>> import numpy as N
>>>>> a = N.exp(N.array([1000],dtype=N.longfloat))
>>>>>           
>> Warning: overflow encountered in exp
>>     
>>>>> a
>>>>>           
>> array([1.#INF], dtype=float64)
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> O.K.   We need to modify the test in case to check and see that the size 
> of longfloat isn't the same as double.
>   
How about:

    def check_longfloat_repr(self,level=rlevel):
        """Ticket #112"""
        if N.dtype(N.longfloat) != N.dtype(N.float):
            a = N.exp(N.array([1000],dtype=N.longfloat))
            assert(str(a)[1:9] == str(a[0])[:8])

That seems to work here.

-tim





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