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

[Bruce Southey]

On 04/06/2010 10:11 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bsouthey at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 04/05/2010 10:33 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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>>     On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Bruce Southey
>>     <bsouthey at gmail.com <mailto:bsouthey at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>         HI,
>>         Scipy installed okay on Win7 pro 32 bit Python 2.6 but the
>>         tests were
>>         interesting.  Several times during the scipy.test() windows
>>         came and
>>         went. There are also warnings indicating some incompatibility.
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>>     Windows should not be popping up, unless you're also running
>>     doctests with plot commands. Any idea what they are? If not, can
>>     you narrow it down by running tests for the individual modules?
>     All I did was 'import scipy' and then run 'scipy.test()' so I do
>     did not tell it to run any doctests.
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> So can you run the module tests?
> >>> scipy.integrate.test()
> >>> scipy.optimize.test()
> etc. Then maybe you can find out where those windows are coming from.
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>
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>>         Why is the histogram warning here? It does say removal in
>>         Numpy 1.4 so
>>         should be gone. Also, shouldn't some of the other stats
>>         functions also
>>         be removed?
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>>     These things should have been removed but weren't in 1.4.0, I
>>     just kept it that way. It can still be removed of course, but
>>     maybe this is better done (or already done) in trunk?
>
>     David Huard did bring the histogram issue up but apparently it was no addressed:
>     http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2009-December/047389.html
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>     If it is not removed then can you please clarify what 'Numpy 1.4' means?
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> Well, even though the numpy 1.4.0 binary was removed from sourceforge, 
> I regarded that as 'Numpy 1.4'. So I see 1.4.1 as a bug-fix release 
> for 1.4.0, not the place to remove something. Updating the docstring 
> like David H. suggested makes more sense to me.
>
> That said, I don't feel strongly about it either way.
In regards to scipy, this is the scipy ticket 1120:
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/1120

I think this ticket can be closed because the offending line has been 
fixed in the SVN.

Bruce
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