[SciPy-user] loadmat test fails (numpy 1.0rc1.dev3175, scipy 0.5.2.dev2199)

[Steve Schmerler]

Nils Wagner wrote:
> Matthew Brett wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 9/18/06, Steve Schmerler <elcorto at gmx.net> wrote:
>>   
>>> Just a quick note: The test of the latest scipy build fails at several
>>> loadmat tests with permission issues.
>>>     
>> ...
>>   
>>> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/io/tests/./data/testcell_6.5.1_GLNX86.mat'
>>>     
>> Thanks for this report.  Just to ask - what are the permissions on
>> your system for the file above?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Matthew
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> I have filed a bug report. (including permissions)
> 
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/ticket/263
> 
> Nils
> 
>  

On my machine:

elcorto at ramrod:~$ ll 
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/io/tests/data
total 248
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 270 Sep 15 16:40 japanese_utf8.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 232 Sep 15 16:40 test3dmatrix_6.1_SOL2.mat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 232 Sep 15 16:40 test3dmatrix_6.5.1_GLNX86.mat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 213 Sep 15 16:40 test3dmatrix_7.1_GLNX86.mat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 536 Sep 15 16:40 testcell_6.1_SOL2.mat
[...]

-- 
cheers,
steve

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