[SciPy-dev] Failures in current CVS version

[Pearu Peterson]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Pearu Peterson wrote:

> Btw, I just run build scipy under Python 2.1 and there I get only one 
> failure:
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: check_arange (test_basic.test_arange)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File 
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/scipy/special/tests/test_basic.py", 
> line 474, in check_arange
>     assert_array_equal(numstringa, array([3.,3.3,3.6,3.9]))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/scipy_test/testing.py", line 390, 
> in assert_array_equal
>     assert alltrue(ravel(reduced)),\
> AssertionError: 
> Arrays are not equal:

I investigated this a bit futher.. The problem was in Numeric.arange that
have different implementations in versions 21.0 (that I have under Python 
2.1) and 23.1 (Python 2.3.1) and return a tiny bit different (but 
noticable to above tests) results:

Python 2.1.3+ (#1, Jul  5 2003, 00:42:30) 
[GCC 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import Numeric
>>> Numeric.__version__ 
'21.0'
>>> Numeric.arange(3,4,.3)[-1]
3.8999999999999995

Python 2.3.1 (#2, Sep 27 2003, 12:44:22) 
[GCC 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import Numeric
>>> Numeric.__version__ 
'23.1'
>>> Numeric.arange(3,4,.3)[-1]
3.8999999999999999

On the other hand, why Numeric.arange is tested under scipy.special 
anyway? I'd remove it from special/test_basic.py. Any objections?

Pearu