Re: [Pysparse-developers] SpMatrix_API bug

[Daniel W. <dan...@ni...>]

On May 4, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Dominique Orban wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Since the new pysparse namespace was introduced, I believe there is a
> minor bug in the SpMatrix_API that affects external packages that
> build against PySparse.
>
> The bug is in spmatrix_api.h, in the "import_spmatrix" macro. I
> believe the first line should read
>
>  PyObject *spmatrix = PyImport_ImportModule("pysparse.spmatrix");
>
> instead of
>
>  PyObject *spmatrix = PyImport_ImportModule("spmatrix");

Thanks for the bug report. Are there any other places with similar  
problems?
I'll try and make the change on HEAD ASAP. Probably do it next week.
I also need to a new release as the numpy header stuff has now been  
sorted out.

Cheers

>
> since spmatrix.so is now located under pysparse/. Not doing the above
> change has the following disadvantage. In order to build against
> PySparse and to successfully import spmatrix, one would have to add
> the directory 'pysparse' to their PYTHONPATH. But then, that defeats
> the purpose of the new namespace.
>
> Cheers,
> Dominique

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Daniel Wheeler