[SciPy-dev] python2.6 and scipy

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:39:25 +0100, Nils Wagner wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just installed scipy using python2.6 on openSuSE 11.1
>>
>> Ran 3353 tests in 53.293s
>>
>> FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=2, SKIP=28, errors=124, failures=1)
>> <nose.result.TextTestResult run=3353 errors=124 failures=1>
>>
>> Is it recommended to use python2.5 ?
>
> For me, all the errors seem to look like this:
>
> ---------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/home/pauli/koodi/proj/scipy/scipy.git/dist/linux/lib/python2.6/
> site-packages/scipy/stats/tests/test_mstats_basic.py", line 347, in
> test_mode
>    assert_equal(mstats.mode(a1, axis=None), (3,4))
>  File "dist/linux/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/stats/
> mstats_basic.py", line 267, in mode
>  File "dist/linux/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/stats/
> mstats_basic.py", line 259, in _mode1D
>  File "dist/linux/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/stats/
> mstats_basic.py", line 142, in find_repeats
> RuntimeError: more argument specifiers than keyword list entries
> (remaining format:'|:futil.dfreps')
> ---------------------
>
> Looks like a f2py issue.
>
> --
> Pauli Virtanen
>

I don't know much about f2py, but stats.futil.f  doesn't have a
corresponding futil.pyf in my scipy compilation, and the
stats/setup.py looks different for futil than for the other fortran
modules. Maybe its an incomplete setup in stats/setup.py?

Josef

Josef