Re: [matplotlib-devel] rotate_vector major bug in basemap

2008-05-10 Thread Eric Firing
Jeff, The problem is not in basemap, it is numpy. Basemap is doing the right thing, using the astype method to ensure a copy--but that is not what the method is actually doing in this case. I filed a numpy ticket (788). I took a quick look at the numpy code but did not find anything obvious

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rotate_vector major bug in basemap

2008-05-10 Thread Eric Firing
Jeff, I sent that last message a little too quickly. Now I see that pyproj really is trying to ensure a copy--that is what the comments and docstring say--so I will simply try to find and fix the bug, the particular case in which a copy is not being made. Eric Eric Firing wrote: > Jeff, > >

[matplotlib-devel] rotate_vector major bug in basemap

2008-05-10 Thread Eric Firing
Jeff, I ran into a major bug that I think results from a fairly deep-seated gotcha in basemap. The problem lies with the in-place transformation of lon,lat in the proj library. This is not an inherent problem in itself; the trouble comes because sometimes the data get copied along the way fr