[SciPy-Dev] request for testing: SciPy 0.7.2 RC1 + NumPy 1.4.1 RC1

[Bruce Southey]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ralf Gommers
<ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The first release candidate of both Scipy 0.7.2 and NumPy 1.4.1 is ready,
> and I want to ask for some help with testing. I'm interested to hear about
> both installs where everything is OK and where there is a problem. SciPy
> 0.7.2 should work with both NumPy 1.3.0 and 1.4.1. Also, reports on whether
> these binaries work with matplotlib/pygame/<your favorite package here> will
> be very useful.
>
> For scipy 0.7.2 there are no new features compared to 0.7.1, the one change
> is that all cython sources have been regenerated with cython 0.12 so the
> resulting binary works with numpy 1.4.1. Numpy 1.4.1 has important bug fixes
> that should have solved the incompatibilities with scipy and other packages
> that were introduced with numpy 1.4.0.
>
> Windows binaries:
> http://www.filefactory.com/file/b0ghb9e/n/numpy-1.4.1rc1-win32-superpack-python2.6.exe
> http://filefactory.com/file/b0ghce6/n/scipy-0.7.2rc1-win32-superpack-python2.6.exe
>
> OS X binaries:
> http://www.filefactory.com/file/b0gh5h1/n/numpy-1.4.1rc1-py2.6-python.org.dmg
> http://www.filefactory.com/file/b0gh638/n/scipy-0.7.2rc1-py2.6-python.org.dmg
>
> I have not yet received the keys to the sourceforge site, so the above
> temporary hosting will have to do for rc1 (apologies for the flashy ads and
> download delay). Bandwidth is 150MB/hr so if the download is slow or not
> working please try again a bit later.
>
> Known issues:
> - there are failing datetime tests in numpy, they should probably be marked
> as knownfail or removed from the 1.4.x branch.
> - the numpy OS X installer still needs artwork.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
>
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Hi,
Numpy installed okay under Win7 32bit python but got one failure for
the tests. Scipy next.

Bruce

Python 2.6.3 (r263rc1:75186, Oct  2 2009, 20:40:30) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
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IDLE 2.6.3
>>> import numpy
>>> numpy.__version__
'1.4.1rc1'
>>> numpy.test()
Running unit tests for numpy
NumPy version 1.4.1rc1
NumPy is installed in E:\Python26\lib\site-packages\numpy
Python version 2.6.3 (r263rc1:75186, Oct  2 2009, 20:40:30) [MSC
v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
nose version 0.11.1
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FAIL: test_special_values (test_umath_complex.TestClog)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\Python26\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\tests\test_umath_complex.py",
line 179, in test_special_values
    assert_almost_equal(np.log(x), y)
  File "E:\Python26\lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line
437, in assert_almost_equal
    "DESIRED: %s\n" % (str(actual), str(desired)))
AssertionError: Items are not equal:
ACTUAL: [ NaN+2.35619449j]
DESIRED: (inf+2.35619449019j)


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Ran 2334 tests in 30.130s

FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=7, SKIP=1, failures=1)