On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.har...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Derek Homeier <
> de...@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ralf,
>>
>> > I am pleased to announce the availability of the second release
>> > candidate of NumPy 1.6.0.
>> >
>> > Compared to the first release candidate, one segfault on (32-bit
>> > Windows + MSVC) and several memory leaks were fixed. If no new
>> > problems are reported, the final release will be in one week.
>>
>> I found a problem apparently related to string handling on MacOS X
>> 10.5/ppc with Python3 - not a new one though, at least it seemed to
>> be present with 1.6.0b2:
>>
>> >>> numpy.test('full')
>> Running unit tests for numpy
>> NumPy version 1.6.0rc2
>> NumPy is installed in /sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy
>> Python version 3.2 (r32:88445, Mar  1 2011, 18:28:16) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple
>> Inc. build 5493)]
>> nose version 1.0.0
>> ...
>> ======================================================================
>> FAIL: test_return_character.TestF77ReturnCharacter.test_all
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 188, in
>> runTest
>>    self.test(*self.arg)
>>  File
>> "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/f2py/tests/test_return_character.py",
>> line 78, in test_all
>>    self.check_function(getattr(self.module, name))
>>  File
>> "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/f2py/tests/test_return_character.py",
>> line 12, in check_function
>>    r = t(array('ab'));assert_( r==asbytes('a'),repr(r))
>>  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/testing/utils.py", line 34,
>> in assert_
>>    raise AssertionError(msg)
>> AssertionError: b' '
>>
>> ======================================================================
>> FAIL: test_return_character.TestF90ReturnCharacter.test_all
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 188, in
>> runTest
>>    self.test(*self.arg)
>>  File
>> "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/f2py/tests/test_return_character.py",
>> line 136, in test_all
>>    self.check_function(getattr(self.module.f90_return_char, name))
>>  File
>> "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/f2py/tests/test_return_character.py",
>> line 12, in check_function
>>    r = t(array('ab'));assert_( r==asbytes('a'),repr(r))
>>  File "/sw/lib/python3.2/site-packages/numpy/testing/utils.py", line 34,
>> in assert_
>>    raise AssertionError(msg)
>> AssertionError: b' '
>>
>> All the previous failures on ppc are gone now, and with Python2.[4567] all
>> tests are passing!
>> On Intel MacOS X (10.5/i386 and 10.6/x86_64) everything is OK for Python
>> 2.5-3.2 as well.
>>
>>
> Looks like Fortran. Maybe we should lst the Fortran compiler when the full
> test suite is run.
>
> lst = list? That would be useful.

Is this failure a problem or can it wait?

Ralf
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