[SciPy-Dev] Compiling scipy 0.13.2 with Python 3.4 rc 1

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Stephen Simmons <mail at stevesimmons.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In case anyone wants to try scipy with the new Python 3.4, there is a
> problem with importlib in rc1 that results in import errors while
> building scipy. Basically f2py can't do its imports properly and some
> autogenerated code comes out with missing symbols. It can be hard to see
> this amidst the stream of build messages and warnings. They show up
> clearly though when starting python3.4 and running scipy.test(). First
> time through I got 174 failing tests.
>
> If you don't want to wait for Python 3.4 rc2, you can download the fixed
> version of importlib.__init__.py from here (updated on 12 Dec):
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c1a7ba57b4ff/Lib/importlib/__init__.py
>
> After doing this, I removed numpy and scipy (sudo pip3.4 uninstall numpy
> etc), recompiled numpy and scipy, and got no test failures (using Linux
> Mint 14).
>

Thanks for the report Stephen, quite helpful.

Ralf
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