[Numpy-discussion] bug in fromiter - with patch

[Russel Howe]

Oops.  I made a last minute change without re-running the tests.  The 
tests refer to np.range, that should just be range.

Corrected test attached.


Russel Howe wrote:
> As of SVN from this morning, fromiter cannot create an array whose dtype 
> is a byte type
> 
> In [1]: np.fromiter(range(10), dtype='b')
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MemoryError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
> 
> /Users/baxter/<ipython console> in <module>()
> 
> MemoryError: cannot allocate array memory
> 
> 
> I am not sure how to include a test whose failure condition is the 
> raising of an exception, but the patch includes the above test.
> 
> Russel
> 
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