[SciPy-dev] Re: [SciPy-user] Test cases for expm

[Travis Oliphant]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Nils Wagner wrote:

> Travis Oliphant schrieb:
> >
> > The test cases Nils posted recently work fine for me.
> >
> > As expected expm2 does not work well (nor does funm) for the badly
> > conditioned matrix obtained during that computation.
> >
> > expm and expm3 agree and look good.
> >
> > Thanks for the tests.
> >
> > If you are still having trouble, consider removing the build directory and
> > starting again.
> >
> > The error Nils showed was fixed only a few hours ago, and so you should
> > update your CVS copy.
> >
> > -Travis
> >

>
> I have updated both my CVS copy of scipy and ATLAS atlas3.2.1 -->
> atlas3.3.13
>
> This is the result of python exptest.py
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "exptest.py", line 1, in ?
>     from scipy import *
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/scipy/__init__.py", line
> 72, in ?
>     names2all(__all__, _level0, globals())
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/scipy/__init__.py", line
> 37, in names2all
>     exec("import %s" % name, gldict)
>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/scipy/basic.py", line 25,
> in ?
>     cast = {Numeric.Character: toChar,
> AttributeError: 'Numeric' module has no attribute 'Character'
>
> Any idea ?

Try:

import Numeric
print Numeric.Character


If that doesn't work, you have an unusual Numeric.  Which version?

This error shouldn't occur.

-Travis