[Numpy-discussion] Problem with numpy.linalg.eig?

[David Cournapeau]

Keith Goodman wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 10:51 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Nov 13, 2007 3:37 AM, Keith Goodman <kwgoodman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Nov 12, 2007 10:10 AM, Peter Creasey <p.e.creasey.00@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> The following code calling numpy v1.0.4 fails to terminate on my machine,
>>>> which was not the case with v1.0.3.1
>>>>
>>>>     from numpy import arange, float64
>>>>     from numpy.linalg import eig
>>>>     a = arange(13*13, dtype = float64)
>>>>     a.shape = (13,13)
>>>>     a = a%17
>>>>     eig(a)
>>>>         
>>> It sounds like the same problem that was reported in this thread:
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/17456/focus=17465
>>>
>>> A friend of mine says the windows binary of 1.0.4 also hangs on eigh
>>> and lstsq (so linalg in general). I don't have that problem on 1.0.5
>>> compiled on GNU/Linux.
>>>       
>> Could you friend try the binaries there:
>>
>> http://projects.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2007-November/029811.html
>>
>> This may be a problem related to the blas/lapack used for the
>> binaries. The binaries posted above use non optimized BLAS/LAPACK (I
>> can update to 1.0.4 if this is a problem).
>>     
>
> He tried. But he is using python 2.4. (He said your binary was for 2.5).
>   
Here we are:

http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/david/archives/numpy-1.0.4.win32-py2.4.exe

David