Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy set_printoptions, silent failure, bug?

2016-07-19 Thread John Ladasky
Thank you Juan, I've just joined GitHub and I've submitted the description
of the bug.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Juan Nunez-Iglesias 
wrote:

> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues
>
>
> From: John Ladasky  
> Reply: Discussion of Numerical Python 
> 
> Date: 20 July 2016 at 7:49:10 AM
> To: Discussion of Numerical Python 
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> Subject:  Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy set_printoptions, silent failure,
> bug?
>
> Hi Robert,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.  If no one disagrees with you or with me that this
>> is a Numpy bug, I would appreciate being directed to the appropriate page
>> to submit a bug-fix request.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Robert Kern 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:41 PM, John Ladasky  wrote:
>>>
>>> > Should this be considered a Numpy bug, or is there some reason that
>>> set_printoptions would legitimately need to accept a dictionary as a single
>>> argument?
>>>
>>> There is no such reason. One could certainly add more validation to the
>>> arguments to np.set_printoptions().
>>>
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy set_printoptions, silent failure, bug?

2016-07-19 Thread Juan Nunez-Iglesias
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues


From: John Ladasky  
Reply: Discussion of Numerical Python 

Date: 20 July 2016 at 7:49:10 AM
To: Discussion of Numerical Python 

Subject:  Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy set_printoptions, silent failure,
bug?

Hi Robert,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  If no one disagrees with you or with me that this
> is a Numpy bug, I would appreciate being directed to the appropriate page
> to submit a bug-fix request.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Robert Kern 
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:41 PM, John Ladasky  wrote:
>>
>> > Should this be considered a Numpy bug, or is there some reason that
>> set_printoptions would legitimately need to accept a dictionary as a single
>> argument?
>>
>> There is no such reason. One could certainly add more validation to the
>> arguments to np.set_printoptions().
>>
>> --
>> Robert Kern
>>
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy set_printoptions, silent failure, bug?

2016-07-19 Thread John Ladasky
Hi Robert,

Thanks for your reply.  If no one disagrees with you or with me that this
is a Numpy bug, I would appreciate being directed to the appropriate page
to submit a bug-fix request.


On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Robert Kern  wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:41 PM, John Ladasky  wrote:
>
> > Should this be considered a Numpy bug, or is there some reason that
> set_printoptions would legitimately need to accept a dictionary as a single
> argument?
>
> There is no such reason. One could certainly add more validation to the
> arguments to np.set_printoptions().
>
> --
> Robert Kern
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Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy set_printoptions, silent failure, bug?

2016-07-19 Thread Robert Kern
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:41 PM, John Ladasky  wrote:

> Should this be considered a Numpy bug, or is there some reason that
set_printoptions would legitimately need to accept a dictionary as a single
argument?

There is no such reason. One could certainly add more validation to the
arguments to np.set_printoptions().

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[Numpy-discussion] Numpy set_printoptions, silent failure, bug?

2016-07-19 Thread John Ladasky
Hi there,

I've been using Numpy for several years and appreciate it very much.

The following minimal code has been tried on Python 3.4 and 3.5, with Numpy
1.8 and Numpy 1.11, respectively.  I want to temporarily change the way
that a Numpy array is printed, then change it back.

import numpy as np

a = np.random.random((4,3))
print(a, "\n")
opt = np.get_printoptions()
np.set_printoptions(precision = 3, suppress = True)
print(a, "\n")
np.set_printoptions(opt)
print(a, "\n\nDone.\n")


Here is the traceback:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "set_printoptions test.py", line 11, in 
print(a, "\n\nDone.\n")
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/numeric.py", line 1615,
in array_str
return array2string(a, max_line_width, precision, suppress_small, ' ',
"", str)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/arrayprint.py", line 454,
in array2string
separator, prefix, formatter=formatter)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/arrayprint.py", line 328,
in _array2string
_summaryEdgeItems, summary_insert)[:-1]
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/arrayprint.py", line 523,
in _formatArray
summary_insert)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/arrayprint.py", line 497,
in _formatArray
word = format_function(a[-i]) + separator
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/arrayprint.py", line 616,
in __call__
s = self.format % x
AttributeError: 'FloatFormat' object has no attribute 'format'


It took me a while to discover the bug, on the second to last line.  That
line should read:

np.set_printoptions(**opt)


This unpacks the dictionary, opt, which was retrieved earlier in the
program with the call to get_printoptions.

I am wondering why set_printoptions would accept the dictionary as a single
argument.  Shouldn't that raise a TypeError or something?

The AttributeError that is raised the next time that one attempts to print
a numpy array is remote from the problem, and thus rather uninformative,
which is why I did not immediately diagnose my error.

Should this be considered a Numpy bug, or is there some reason that
set_printoptions would legitimately need to accept a dictionary as a single
argument?

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