[Numpy-discussion] numpy.fromstring() : error handling ?

[Zachary Pincus]

> the following code drives python into an endless loop :
>
> >>> import numpy
> >>> numpy.fromstring("abcd", dtype = float, sep = ' ')

It works on OS X 10.5.4 with a today's SVN head of numpy:

In [1]: import numpy

In [2]: numpy.fromstring("abcd", dtype = float, sep = ' ')
Out[2]: array([ 0.])

In [3]: numpy.version.version
Out[3]: '1.2.0.dev5619'

Perhaps this was fixed recently, or the bug is platform-specific?

Zach


On Aug 7, 2008, at 4:44 PM, oc-spam66 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> the following code drives python into an endless loop :
>
> >>> import numpy
> >>> numpy.fromstring("abcd", dtype = float, sep = ' ')
>
> I think the function numpy.fromstring is lacking an adequate error  
> handling for that case.
>
> Is it a bug ?
>
> Regards,
>
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