Re: [Numpy-discussion] Windows build/distribute plan & MingwPy funding

2016-01-04 Thread Erik Bray
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > Hi all, > > You probably know that building Numpy, Scipy and the rest of the Scipy Stack > on Windows is problematic. And that there are plans to adopt the static > MinGW-w64 based toolchain that Carl Kleffner has done a lot of work on for > th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Memory mapping and NPZ files

2015-12-11 Thread Erik Bray
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Mathieu Dubois wrote: > Dear all, > > If I am correct, using mmap_mode with Npz files has no effect i.e.: > f = np.load("data.npz", mmap_mode="r") > X = f['X'] > will load all the data in memory. > > Can somebody confirm that? > > If I'm correct, the mmap_mode argum

Re: [Numpy-discussion] When to stop supporting Python 2.6?

2015-12-09 Thread Erik Bray
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Chris Barker >> wrote: >>> >>> drop 2.6 >>> >>> I still don't understand why folks insist that they need to run a (very)) >>> old python

[Numpy-discussion] Should we allow arrays with "empty string" dtypes?

2015-10-09 Thread Erik Bray
Hi all, This is a post about strings--for the purpose of discussion then I'll be assuming Python 2 and string means non-unicode strings. However, the discussion applies all the same to unicode strings. For a long time Numpy has had the following behavior: When creating an array with a zero-width