[Numpy-discussion] lexsort segfault sorting strings

[eric <er...@en...>]

I've been using the new record arrays and lexsort from numpy quite a lot 
lately.  Very cool stuff.

Using the nightly egg for numpy from here (I believe it is up to date...):

http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/numpy-nightly-py2.4-win32.egg


I get segfaults when using lexsort on character arrays.  A lot of my 
columns in record arrays are string based, so sorting the arrays based 
on these columns would be really handy.

Here is an example that crashes for me.

<http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/numpy-nightly-py2.4-win32.egg>C:\wrk\mt\trunk\src\lib\mt\statement\tests>python
Python 2.4.3 - Enthought Edition 1.0.0 (#69, Aug  2 2006, 12:09:59) [MSC 
v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from numpy import lexsort
 >>> lst = [1,2,3]
 >>> lexsort((lst,))
array([0, 1, 2])
 >>> lst = ['abc','cde','fgh']
 >>> lexsort((lst,))
<seg-fault>

Do others see this?

I've opened a ticket at:
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/298

thanks,
eric