[Numpy-discussion] view takes no keyword arguments exception

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Jochen Schroeder <cycomanic at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to help someone out with some problems with pyfftw
> (pyfftw.berlios.de). He is seeing an exception,
>
> TypeError: view() takes no keyword arguments
>
> This doesn't only happen when he uses pyfftw but also when he does the
> following:
>
> >>> import numpy as np
> >>> a=np.arange(10)
> >>> print a.view(dtype='float')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: view() takes no keyword arguments
>
> I he's on Windows and sees this error both with numpy 1.1.1 and 1.3.
> I'm a bit lost anybody have an idea what could be the problem?
>

I don't see this error on linux:

In [3]: a.view(dtype=double)
Out[3]: array([ 1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.])

What version of python do you have installed? Did try deleting the previous
version of numpy from site-packages before install? Windows 32 or 64 bit?
Etc.

Chuck
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