[Numpy-discussion] Failures in test_recfunctions.py

[Nils Wagner]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:53:39 -0500
  Pierre GM <pgmdevlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting.
> The tests pass on my machine
> OS X,
> Python version 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 29 2008, 17:02:44) 
>[GCC 4.0.1  
> (Apple Inc. build 5488)]
> nose version 0.10.4
> 
>For
>>   File
>> "/home/nwagner/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/lib/tests/ 
>> test_recfunctions.py",
>> line 34, in test_zip_descr
>>     np.dtype([('', '<i4'), ('', '<i4')]))
> 
> I guess I can change '<i4' to int, which should work.
> 
>For:
>>
>> ======================================================================
>> FAIL: Test the ignoremask option of find_duplicates
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File
>> "/home/nwagner/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/lib/tests/ 
>> test_recfunctions.py",
>> line 186, in test_find_duplicates_ignoremask
>>     assert_equal(test[-1], control)
>>
>> (mismatch 33.3333333333%)
>>  x: array([0, 1, 3, 4, 2, 6])
>>  y: array([0, 1, 3, 4, 6, 2])
>>
> 
> there's obviously a machine-dependent element somewhere. 
>I'd blame  
> argsort: the last 2 indices that are switched correspond 
>to the masked  
> elements in the input of the test. Note that the result 
>is basically  
> correct.
> I should have access to a linux box, I'll see what I can 
>do.
> 
Hi Pierre,

Thank you. Works for me.

Ran 1881 tests in 12.565s

OK (KNOWNFAIL=9)
<nose.result.TextTestResult run=1881 errors=0 failures=0>
  
Nils