NumPy 1.6.2 Release Notes
This is a bugfix release in the 1.6.x series. Due to the delay of the NumPy
1.7.0 release, this release contains far more fixes than a regular NumPy bugfix
release. It also includes a number of documentation and build improvements.
Issues fixed
numpy.core
- #2063: make unique() return consistent index
- #1138: allow creating arrays from empty buffers or empty slices
- #1446: correct note about correspondence vstack and concatenate
- #1149: make argmin() work for datetime
- #1672: fix allclose() to work for scalar inf
- #1747: make np.median() work for 0-D arrays
- #1776: make complex division by zero to yield inf properly
- #1675: add scalar support for the format() function
- #1905: explicitly check for NaNs in allclose()
- #1952: allow floating ddof in std() and var()
- #1948: fix regression for indexing chararrays with empty list
- #2017: fix type hashing
- #2046: deleting array attributes causes segfault
- #2033: a**2.0 has incorrect type
- #2045: make attribute/iterator_element deletions not segfault
- #2021: fix segfault in searchsorted()
- #2073: fix float16 __array_interface__ bug
numpy.lib
- #2048: break reference cycle in NpzFile
- #1573: savetxt() now handles complex arrays
- #1387: allow bincount() to accept empty arrays
- #1899: fixed histogramdd() bug with empty inputs
- #1793: fix failing npyio test under py3k
- #1936: fix extra nesting for subarray dtypes
- #1848: make tril/triu return the same dtype as the original array
- #1918: use Py_TYPE to access ob_type, so it works also on Py3
numpy.distutils
- #1261: change compile flag on AIX from -O5 to -O3
- #1377: update HP compiler flags
- #1383: provide better support for C++ code on HPUX
- #1857: fix build for py3k + pip
- BLD: raise a clearer warning in case of building without cleaning up first
- BLD: follow build_ext coding convention in build_clib
- BLD: fix up detection of Intel CPU on OS X in system_info.py
- BLD: add support for the new X11 directory structure on Ubuntu & co.
- BLD: add ufsparse to the libraries search path.
- BLD: add 'pgfortran' as a valid compiler in the Portland Group
- BLD: update version match regexp for IBM AIX Fortran compilers.
numpy.random
- BUG: Use npy_intp instead of long in mtrand
Changes
numpy.f2py
- ENH: Introduce new options extra_f77_compiler_args and extra_f90_compiler_args
- BLD: Improve reporting of fcompiler value
- BUG: Fix f2py test_kind.py test
numpy.poly
- ENH: Add some tests for polynomial printing
- ENH: Add companion matrix functions
- DOC: Rearrange the polynomial documents
- BUG: Fix up links to classes
- DOC: Add version added to some of the polynomial package modules
- DOC: Document xxxfit functions in the polynomial package modules
- BUG: The polynomial convenience classes let different types interact
- DOC: Document the use of the polynomial convenience classes
- DOC: Improve numpy reference documentation of polynomial classes
- ENH: Improve the computation of polynomials from roots
- STY: Code cleanup in polynomial [*]fromroots functions
- DOC: Remove references to cast and NA, which were added in 1.7