[SciPy-user] problem with _num.seterr when importing scipy

[Kevin Long]

Hello,

I'm getting an error message about "_num.seterr" when importing scipy. 
Output is below. 

<diogenes:/home/krlong> python
Python 2.4.4 (#1, Feb  9 2007, 14:45:36)
[GCC 3.4.6] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import scipy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/__init__.py", line 37, 
in ?
    _num.seterr(all='ignore')
TypeError: seterr() got an unexpected keyword argument 'all'
>>>        

I've googled the error message, but found no other reports of it. 
To get past this problem, I commented out line 37 in __init.py__ and pressed 
bravely (or foolishly) onwards. Things seem to work OK after that, but 
I'm nervous about commenting something out of your code.

This is on SuSE 10.1, but I'm not using the versions of python, gcc, blas, or 
lapack that were bundled with the system. The python version is 2.4.4. Lapack 
is the distribution from netlib. The BLAS is the version shipped with 
netlib's lapack, with srotmg.f, srotm.f, drotm.f,  and drotmg.f added (from 
netlib's blas.tar.gz) to provide the complete BLAS needed by scipy. 
Everything was built with gcc 3.4.6. 

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Kevin Long


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        Dr. Kevin Long
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        Sandia National Laboratories          

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