On 10/12/06, Cristian Codorean <cri...@gm...> wrote:
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> Hello list,
> I got some old code that uses Scientific and Numeric. Recently, these
> two packages were updated to the latest versions together with python and my
> code started failing. The first major problem I have is when downcasting.
> Code that used to work now fails because the array cannot be safely cast
> anymore to the required type. If anyone could help me please and direct me
> to some documentation about when this change happened (version), why it
> happened, is there any other solution but using astype, can numpy help me in
> anyway in this situation, because I got really lost ...
This seems related to a more recent thread. Travis says that numeric
throwing an error on downcasting is traditional, so I am curious as to why
the previous code should have worked.
Chuck
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