[Numpy-discussion] major bug in fromstring, ascii mode

[Pauli Virtanen]

su, 2008-01-27 kello 01:16 -0700, Charles R Harris kirjoitti:
> 
> 
> On Jan 26, 2008 11:30 PM, Eric Firing <efiring@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>         In the course of trying to parse ascii times, I ran into a
>         puzzling bug.
>          Sometimes it works as expected:
>         
>         In [31]:npy.fromstring('23:19:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
>         Out[31]:array([23, 19,  1])
>         
>         But sometimes it doesn't:
>         
>         In [32]:npy.fromstring('23:09:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
>         Out[32]:array([23,  0])
>         
>         In [33]:npy.__version__
>         Out[33]:'1.0.5.dev4742'
> 
> Works here.

I think it's that some numbers work, and some don't. Consider:

>>> npy.fromstring('23:06:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
array([23,  6,  1])
>>> npy.fromstring('23:07:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
array([23,  7,  1])
>>> npy.fromstring('23:08:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
array([23,  0])
>>> npy.fromstring('23:09:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
array([23,  0])

and

>>> npy.fromstring('23:010:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
array([23,  8,  1])
>>> npy.fromstring('23:011:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
array([23,  9,  1])

and

>>> npy.fromstring('23:0xff:01', dtype=int, sep=':')
array([ 23, 255,   1])

Smells like some scanf function is interpreting numbers beginning with
zero as octal, and recognizing also hexadecimals.

This is a bit surprising, and whether this is the desired behavior is
questionable.

-- 
Pauli Virtanen