On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:43 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> > wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I'm wondering who has tried to make NumPy work with Python 3.3. The > Unicode handling was significantly improved in Python 3.3 and the > array-scalar code (which assumed a certain structure for UnicodeObjects) is > not working now. > >> > >> It would be nice to get 1.7.0 working with Python 3.3 if possible > before the release. Anyone interested in tackling that little > challenge? If someone has already tried it would be nice to hear your > experience. > > > > Given that we're late with 1.7, I would suggest passing this to the > > next release, unless the fix is simple (just a change of API). > > I took a brief look at it, and from the errors I have seen, one is > cosmetic, the other one is a bit more involved (rewriting > PyArray_Scalar unicode support). While it is not difficult in nature, > the current code has multiple #ifdef of Py_UNICODE_WIDE, meaning it > would require multiple configurations on multiple python versions to > be tested. > > I don't think python 3.3 support is critical - people who want to play > with bet interpreters can build numpy by themselves from master, so I > am -1 on integrating this into 1.7. > > I may have a fix within tonight for it, though, > There are 2 tickets about this: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2145 http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1471 Ralf
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