[SciPy-dev] Weave - strange behaviour

[Fernando Perez]

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>>>>"MM" == Manuel Metz <mmetz at astro.uni-bonn.de> writes:
> 
> 
>     MM> Hi, I was really excited about weave. But I found a (to me)
>     MM> somewhat strange behaviour, which I do not understand. I used
>     MM> the following code to test weave:
> 
> [...]
> 
>     MM> And it seams that EACH time I call the function the C-code
>     MM> gets compiled. This behavior also showed up depending on the
>     MM> first line of the C-code (line break or not; additionen
>     MM> spaces).
> 
>     MM> Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what is going wrong? How
>     MM> can I prevent this strange behaviour (except try and error)?
> 
> I haven't tested your script but usually wipe out my cache and catalog
> if I run into any wierdness.  Its usually stored in
> ~/.python23_compiled.  Do an rm -rf in that directory and rerun, it
> should hopefully work.

I second that.  I have fixed in the distant past some catalog-related bugs 
which were appearing with exactly the behaoviour you mention.  But there may 
be more lying around.  And that code is quite tricky, it took me a full day to 
track down a single shelve.close() missing call (or similar).  But my fix is 
already incorporated, so unless you're running an ancient version the problem 
you are seeing is something else.

Unfortunately right now I can't really spend any time on this, and my current 
codes are all behaving fine with weave.

> On 2. perhaps a simple wiki page with user examples would help.  I'm
> sure Fernando has several.  I can add a few myself.  However, the
> basic docs (like the weave user guide) would need our weave guru,
> Eric's, attention.

FWIW, here are my examples (attached).  Please note that I wrote these a while 
back, and weave has changed some since then.  I post them today only in case 
they prove useful to somebody, hopefully soon I'll have time to update them to 
current weave (I think some of them currently don't work).

Best,

f
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