[Numpy-discussion] SVD error in Numpy. NumPy Update reversed?

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Stéfan van der Walt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Lou Pecora <lou_boog2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>>  --- Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher@gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>  > It was added as a compile-time #define on the SVN
>>  > some days ago ;)
>>  >
>>  > Matthieu
>>
>>  Thanks, Matthieu, that's a good step.  But when the
>>  SVD function throws an exception is it clear that the
>>  user can redefine niter and recompile?  Otherwise, the
>>  fix remains well hidden.  Most user will be left
>>  puzzled. I think a comment in the raise statement
>>  would be good.  Just point to the solution or where
>>  the user could find it.
>>     
>
> That's a valid concern.  We could maybe pass down the iteration limit
> as a keyword?
>   
This won't work without significant re-design.  This limit is in the 
low-level code which is an f2c'd version of some BLAS  which is NumPy's 
default SVD implementation if it can't find a vendor BLAS.

-Travis O.