Package: python-scientific Version: 2.8-3 Severity: serious I'm not sure why but python-scientific requires a rebuild to work correctly. Apparently there was a uncoordinated abi/abi break somewhere in its dependences (possibly netcdf or numpy):
apt-get install python-scientific python-netcdf python -c "import numpy as np; import Scientific.IO.NetCDF as nc; ncf = nc.NetCDFFile('t.nc','w'); ncf.createDimension('dim2', 2); ncf.createDimension('n',2); sym = ncf.createVariable('d','c',('n','dim2')); sym[:] = [' C', ' O']; print sym[:]" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: could not convert string to float: C you should get: [[' ' 'C'] [' ' 'O']] this affects debian unstable but originaly reported in ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-scientific/+bug/1041302
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