[SciPy-dev] scikits.umfpack

[Ondrej Certik]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Robert Cimrman <cimrman3 at ntc.zcu.cz> wrote:
> Nils Wagner wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:33:10 +0200
>>   Robert Cimrman <cimrman3 at ntc.zcu.cz> wrote:
>>> Nils Wagner wrote:
>>>> Hi Robert C.,
>>>>
>>>> I saw that you have edited __init__.py today.
>>>>
>>>>>>> from scikits import umfpack
>>>>>>> umfpack.test()
>>>> Running unit tests for scikits.umfpack
>>>> NumPy version 1.2.0.dev5611
>>>> NumPy is installed in
>>>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy
>>>> Python version 2.4 (#1, Oct 13 2006, 17:13:31) [GCC
>>>> 3.3.5
>>>> 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)]
>>>> nose version 0.10.3
>>>> E
>>>> ======================================================================
>>>> ERROR: Failure: ImportError (No module named testing)
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>    File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/nose-0.10.3-py2.4.egg/nose/loader.py",
>>>> line 363, in loadTestsFromName
>>>>      module = self.importer.importFromPath(
>>>>    File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/nose-0.10.3-py2.4.egg/nose/importer.py",
>>>> line 39, in importFromPath
>>>>      return self.importFromDir(dir_path, fqname)
>>>>    File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/nose-0.10.3-py2.4.egg/nose/importer.py",
>>>> line 84, in importFromDir
>>>>      mod = load_module(part_fqname, fh, filename, desc)
>>>>    File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scikits/umfpack/tests/test_umfpack.py",
>>>> line 13, in ?
>>>>      from scipy.testing import *
>>>> ImportError: No module named testing
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Ran 1 test in 0.088s
>>>>
>>>> FAILED (errors=1)
>>>> <nose.result.TextTestResult run=1 errors=1 failures=0>
>>>>
>>>> Nils
>>> Hi Nils,
>>>
>>> I have to do it so that it works with the latest SVN
>>> version
>>> (0.7.0.dev4600), but may have done something wrong. The
>>> prior version is
>>> ok for you?
>>>
>>> r.
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> The problem is that IIRC scipy.testing is not longer used.
>> Please correct me if I am missing something.
>>
>> In [1]: import scipy
>>
>> In [2]: scipy.te
>> scipy.tensordot  scipy.test
>>
>> In [2]: scipy.te
>> scipy.tensordot  scipy.test
>>
>> In [2]: import numpy
>>
>> In [3]: numpy.t
>> numpy.take         numpy.tensordot    numpy.tile
>>         numpy.trapz        numpy.trim_zeros
>>   numpy.typeDict     numpy.typename
>> numpy.tan          numpy.test         numpy.trace
>>        numpy.tri          numpy.triu         numpy.typeNA
>> numpy.tanh         numpy.testing      numpy.transpose
>>    numpy.tril         numpy.true_divide  numpy.typecodes
>
> Hi Nils,
>
> it looks like you have numpy.testing too, so the fix might be ok.
>
> The error you see comes from test_umfpack.py not being updated to new
> testing framework. So what is the current way of importing Tester?
> numpy.testing works for me.
>
> my installation behaves in the following way:
>
> # original:
> In [7]: from scipy.testing.pkgtester import Tester
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
>
> /home/eldaran/<ipython console>
>
> ImportError: No module named testing.pkgtester
>
> # new:
> In [8]: from numpy.testing import Tester
>
> In [9]: import numpy
> In [10]: numpy.__version__
> Out[10]: '1.2.0.dev5615'
> In [11]: import scipy
> In [12]: scipy.__version__
> Out[12]: '0.7.0.dev4603'
>
>
> Related question: what versions of scipy/numpy should be scikits
> compatible with? I will try to update umfpack to work both with the last
> release and the svn.

Well Robert, maybe it's time you start sending patches for a review, no? :)

I am sure Stefan would agree with me. :)

Ondrej