[SciPy-dev] pickling problem

[Travis Oliphant]

Darren Dale wrote:

>On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:12 pm, Travis Oliphant wrote:
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>>Darren Dale wrote:
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>>>I'm having some trouble with unpickled scipy arrays. The issue shows up
>>>when I try to plot in matplotlib, but I think it is a scipy problem.
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>>Can you reproduce the problem just using Numeric and scipy and pickle?
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>I just ran the same script again with Numeric, and was not able to reproduce 
>the problem.
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>>What version of Numeric are you using?
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>24.2
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>>This looks like an array protocol issue.  But, for me, not using pylab,
>>I can create the scipy array, pickle it, unpickle it and convert it to a
>>Numeric array just fine.
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>The following gives me the same error:
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>import pickle
>import scipy
>import Numeric
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>a = scipy.arange(10)
>pickle.dump(a,file('temp.p','w'))
>b = pickle.load(file('temp.p'))
>c = Numeric.array(b)
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>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "pickletest.py", line 8, in ?
>    c = Numeric.array(b)
>ValueError: cannot handle misaligned or not writeable arrays.
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Which platform are you on?  Do you have an old version of Numeric 
getting picked up by accident?

I can't seem to reproduce this error.

This error will only show up in the array_fromstructinterface code which 
parses the array_struct interface information. 

What is the result of b.flags on your system?  To find out insert print 
b.flags right before you call Numeric.array.

Mine is

{'WRITEABLE': True, 'UPDATEIFCOPY': False, 'NOTSWAPPED': True, 
'CONTIGUOUS': True, 'FORTRAN': True, 'ALIGNED': True, 'OWNDATA': False}

In particular you are looking for WRITEABLE and ALIGNED to both be True.

-Travis