[SciPy-dev] TypeError: __array_data__ must return a string providing the pointer to data

[Nils Wagner]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:52:00 -0600
  Travis Oliphant <oliphant at ee.byu.edu> wrote:
> Stephen Walton wrote:
> 
>>Nils Wagner wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Python 2.4 (#2, May 12 2005, 14:45:33)
>>>[GCC 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
>>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
>>>information.
>>> 
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>>>from MLab import *
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>
>>>>>>          
>>>>>>
>>MLab is part of Numeric 23.8 (at least on my machine) and 
>>doesn't make 
>>arrays which are quite 100% compatible with the new scipy 
>>core.  You'll 
>>see the same error message if you try to use matplotlib 
>>to plot the 
>>contents of a new scipy core array.
>>  
>>
> You need the latest Numeric from CVS to do this 
>correctly.  
> 
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "test_lu.py", line 4, in ?
     lu, piv = linalg.lu_factor(a)
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/linalg/decomp.py", 
line 189, in lu_factor
     a1 = asarray(a)
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/base/numeric.py", 
line 36, in asarray
     return array(a, dtype, copy=0, fortran=fortran)
TypeError: __array_data__ must return a string providing 
the pointer to data.
>>> import Numeric
>>> Numeric.__version__
'24.0b2'
>>>                                    


> -Travis
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