[SciPy-Dev] FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=11, SKIP=39, errors=6, failures=1), py27 64bit osx

[Vincent Davis]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Ralf Gommers
<ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ralf Gommers
>>
>> It would seem to me that the set should fail.
>> def test_none(self):
>>        """Ticket #1124."""
>>        signal.medfilt(None)
>>
>> Not sure how to do this but I guess it is possible that the error is
>> not a sigfualt or medfilt could return a more meaningful error because
>> None is not a good argument. Volume=None > gets converted with
>> numpy.atleast_1d(*arys) which returns array([None], dtype=object).
>>
>> So should the test use an expect exception? Or whats the fix?
>>
> I don't get an exception on 32-bit OS X. Looking at the test, the only
> purpose seems to be to ensure there's no segfault. There are probably loads
> of functions that do strange things when you feed them object arrays with
> None or something more random inside - no point checking for that in the
> function. So to fix the test, maybe simply:
>
> def test_none(self):
>     """Ticket #1124. Ensure this does not segfault."""
>     try:
>         signal.medfilt(None)
>     except:
>         pass
>
Filed a ticket
Applied and tested the above patch
Attached patch to ticket.

Vincent

> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
>
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