On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:57, Charles R Harris > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Erik Tollerud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I noticed that the Python 3000 final was released today... is there >>>> any sense of how long it will take to get numpy working under 3k? I >>>> would imagine it'll be a lot to adapt given the low-level change, but >>>> is the work already in progress? >>> >>> I read that announcement too. My feeling is that we can only support one >>> branch at a time, i.e., the python 2.x or python 3.x series. So the easiest >>> path to 3.x looked to be waiting until python 2.6 was widely distributed, >>> making it the required version, doing the needed updates to numpy, and then >>> using the automatic conversion to python 3.x. I expect f2py, nose, and other >>> tools will also need fixups. Guido suggests an approach like this for those >>> needing to support both series and I really don't see an alternative unless >>> someone wants to fork numpy ;) >> >> Looks like python 2.6 just went into Fedora rawhide, so it should be in the >> May Fedora 11 release. I expect Ubuntu and other leading edge Linux distros >> to have it about the same time. This probably means numpy needs to be >> running on python 2.6 by early Spring. > > It does. What problems are people seeing? Is it just the Windows build > that causes people to say "numpy doesn't work with Python 2.6"?
Up to recently, numpy had some failures with python.org python 2.6 in x86 - but those are fixed now. The windows issues are mostly sorted out (and the missing information for reliable build has been integrated in python 2.6.1 I believe http://bugs.python.org/issue4365). F2py does not work, though - which is the main issue to make scipy work on 2.6, as far as I can see. David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
