Re: [Numpy-discussion] Unit test error with numpy rc3

[Mark H. <ma...@hy...>]

On Thu, 19, Oct, 2006 at 08:29:26AM -0600, Travis Oliphant spoke thus..
> Actually, you shouldn't be getting an INF at all.    This is what the=20
> test is designed to test for (so I guess it's working).  The test was=20
> actually written wrong and was never failing because previously keyword=
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> arguments to ufuncs were ignored.=20
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> Can you show us what 'a' is on your platform.

Hi,

I've just done a Mac OS X PPC build of the SVN trunk and am getting this
failure too.

nidesk046:~/scratch/upstream/scipy mark$ python
Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 31 2005, 00:05:10)=20
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy as N
>>> N.__version__
'1.0.dev3378'
>>> N.array([1000],dtype=3DN.float).dtype
dtype('float64')
>>> N.array([1000],dtype=3DN.longfloat).dtype
dtype('float128')
>>> N.test()
=2E..snip...
FAIL: Ticket #112
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/sit=
e-packages/numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py", line 220, in check_longflo=
at_repr
    assert(str(a)[1:9] =3D=3D str(a[0])[:8])
AssertionError
>>> a =3D N.exp(N.array([1000],dtype=3DN.longfloat))
>>> str(a)
'[inf]'


Any ideas about this?

Mark

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