Re: [Numpy-discussion] tests for casting table? (was: Numpy 1.7b1 API change cause big trouble)

2012-10-03 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Frédéric Bastien no...@nouiz.org wrote: Hi, Finally, the change about the casting rule was done in NumPy 1.6. It is our test that checked specifically for numpy 1.6 behavior. But adding the test to make sure it don't change is an excellent idea. Sorry -

Re: [Numpy-discussion] memory-efficient loadtxt

2012-10-03 Thread Wes McKinney
On Monday, October 1, 2012, Chris Barker wrote: Paul, Nice to see someone working on these issues, but: I'm not sure the problem you are trying to solve -- accumulating in a list is pretty efficient anyway -- not a whole lot overhead. But if you do want to improve that, it may be better

Re: [Numpy-discussion] memory-efficient loadtxt

2012-10-03 Thread Paul Anton Letnes
On 3. okt. 2012, at 17:48, Wes McKinney wrote: On Monday, October 1, 2012, Chris Barker wrote: Paul, Nice to see someone working on these issues, but: I'm not sure the problem you are trying to solve -- accumulating in a list is pretty efficient anyway -- not a whole lot overhead.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] memory-efficient loadtxt

2012-10-03 Thread Paul Anton Letnes
On 1. okt. 2012, at 21:07, Chris Barker wrote: Paul, Nice to see someone working on these issues, but: I'm not sure the problem you are trying to solve -- accumulating in a list is pretty efficient anyway -- not a whole lot overhead. Oh, there's significant overhead, since we're not

Re: [Numpy-discussion] memory-efficient loadtxt

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Paul Anton Letnes paul.anton.let...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure the problem you are trying to solve -- accumulating in a list is pretty efficient anyway -- not a whole lot overhead. Oh, there's significant overhead, since we're not talking of a list - we're

Re: [Numpy-discussion] memory-efficient loadtxt

2012-10-03 Thread Paul Anton Letnes
On 3. okt. 2012, at 18:22, Chris Barker wrote: On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Paul Anton Letnes paul.anton.let...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure the problem you are trying to solve -- accumulating in a list is pretty efficient anyway -- not a whole lot overhead. Oh, there's significant

Re: [Numpy-discussion] dtype '|S0' not understood

2012-10-03 Thread Will Lee
This seems to be a old problem but I've recently hit with this in a very random way (I'm using numpy 1.6.1). There seems to be a ticket (1239) but it seems the issue is unscheduled. Can somebody tell me if this is fixed? In particular, it makes for a very unstable behavior when you try to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy distutils log error with easy_install

2012-10-03 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, One of our kind users pointed out an error when using easy_install to install our package nipy. I've reproduced it now on

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy distutils log error with easy_install

2012-10-03 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, One of our kind users pointed out an

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy distutils log error with easy_install

2012-10-03 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:42 PM,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy distutils log error with easy_install

2012-10-03 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Matthew