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SciPy Reference Guide, Release 0.8.dev
about is that I’ve hard coded things so that compilations are linked with the stdc++ library. Is this standard
across Unix compilers, or is this a gcc-ism?
For blitz(), you’ll need a reasonably recent version of gcc. 2.95.2 works on windows and 2.96 looks fine on
Linux. Other versions are likely to work. Its likely that KAI’s C++ compiler and maybe some others will work,
but I haven’t tried. My advice is to use gcc for now unless your willing to tinker with the code some.
On Windows, either MSVC or gcc (mingw32) should work. Again, you’ll need gcc for blitz() as the MSVC
compiler doesn’t handle templates well.
I have not tried Cygwin, so please report success if it works for you.
• NumPy
The python NumPy module is required for blitz() to work and for numpy.distutils which is used by weave.
1.12.4 Installation
There are currently two ways to get weave. First, weave is part of SciPy and installed automatically (as a subpackage)
whenever SciPy is installed. Second, since weave is useful outside of the scientific community, it has been
setup so that it can be used as a stand-alone module.
The stand-alone version can be downloaded from here. Instructions for installing should be found there as well.
setup.py file to simplify installation.
1.12.5 Testing
Once weave is installed, fire up python and run its unit tests.
>>> import weave
>>> weave.test()
runs long time... spews tons of output and a few warnings
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Ran 184 tests in 158.418s
OK
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This takes a while, usually several minutes. On Unix with remote file systems, I’ve had it take 15 or so minutes. In the
end, it should run about 180 tests and spew some speed results along the way. If you get errors, they’ll be reported at
the end of the output. Please report errors that you find. Some tests are known to fail at this point.
If you only want to test a single module of the package, you can do this by running test() for that specific module.
>>> import weave.scalar_spec
>>> weave.scalar_spec.test()
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Ran 7 tests in 23.284s
1.12. Weave 89