[Numpy-discussion] Win32 installer: please test it (Bill Baxter)

[David Cournapeau]

Neil Crighton wrote:
> The Win32 installer works on my Vista machine.  There is one failed
> test, but I think that's just because it tries to write somewhere it
> doesn't have permission - I installed Python in /Program
> Files/Python25/, and you need to be an administrator to write to
> Program Files/.
>
> Here's the error message:
>
> ERROR: test_ValidHTTP (numpy.lib.tests.test__datasource.TestDataSourceOpen)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Program
> Files\Python25\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\tests\test__datasource.py",
> line 79, in test_ValidHTTP
>     assert self.ds.open(valid_httpurl())
>   File "C:\Program
> Files\Python25\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\_datasource.py", line 366,
> in open
>     found = self._findfile(path)
>   File "C:\Program
> Files\Python25\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\_datasource.py", line 243,
> in _findfile
>     name = self._cache(name)
>   File "C:\Program
> Files\Python25\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\_datasource.py", line 203,
> in _cache
>     file(upath, 'w').write(openedurl.read())
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/index.html'
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 887 tests in 4.914s
>   

Yes, I noticed that too. I opened a bug, but this has nothing to do with 
this installer, this would have happened anyway.

David