[SciPy-user] odepack or f2py error

[Robert Kern]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 20:06, Fabrice Silva <silva at lma.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote:
> Le mercredi 16 juillet 2008 à 19:52 +0000, Pauli Virtanen a écrit :
>> gcc bug #36857. Can be worked around by
>>
>>       export LC_ALL=C
>> in shell before running your codes.
>> (The scipy ticket can be closed.)
>
> If this bug is linked to locale setting and decimal separator symbol,
> how can it be explained that without pylab import, the displayed results
> is
>
>         lsoda--  at current t (=r1), mxstep (=i1) steps
>               taken on this call before reaching tout
>              In above message,  I1 =         2
>              In above message,  R1 =  0.4064399263119E-05
>        Excess work done on this call (perhaps wrong Dfun type).
>        Run with full_output = 1 to get quantitative information.
>
> and with pylab import, it crashes as follows:
>
>         lsoda--  at current t (=r1), mxstep (=i1) steps
>               taken on this call before reaching tout
>              In above message,  I1 =         2
>              In above message,  R1 =
>        At line 1991 of file scipy/integrate/odepack/ddasrt.f (unit = 6, file = 'stdout')
>        Internal Error: printf is broken
>
> with the example file Solv.py given in Ticket #696 ?
>
> In the first example, we can see that the separator is '.' . Does pylab
> modify this desktop setting ?

Can you try doing this:

  import locale
  encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()

  # ... whatever crashes

-- 
Robert Kern

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