[pymvpa] PyMVPA for Python 3

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian at onerussian.com> wrote:
> cool and thanks Tiziano,
>
>> I am branching from master on github as of now (f0d900f1a1c715379dd716e3d4c87876b321ba9e).
>
> if you push your work somewhere (I don't see your clone at
> https://github.com/PyMVPA/PyMVPA/network) we will add it to daily
> testing
>
>> - I got three failures and one error: are they expected? is this a
>>   problem with my installation?
>
> yes and no
>
> as Michael pointed out we have some tests marked as labile (ie allowed
> to fail from time to time) and you could exclude them for now.  Another
> way to do so is
>
> MVPA_TESTS_LABILE=no
>
> env variable.  I would not actually do
> MVPA_TESTS_QUICK=yes
>
> for the "final" test run since that would exclude looping over
> parameters in many "parametric" tests, and just run on the first
> argument only, thus not exploring as much
>
> as for tests depending on broken/absent externals -- should be
> automagically skipped so I am not thrilled that it failed on you with
>
>  > OSError: liblapack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> for which you would need liblapack-dev I guess...
> so I have pushed the fix to not add this test gracefully if either
> ctypes absent or it can't find liblapack.so and it should not fail on
> you
>
> NB with MVPA_TESTS_QUICK=yes  you were not testing this case at all
> since it wasn't first value in the list of possible ones so you would
> not run into such failure
>
>> - how can I disable the matplotlib windows that pop up shortly
>>   during testing? as there is still no python3-matplotlib I would
>>   need to disable it for the moment

python3-matplotlib is available, I'm not getting any failures with
matplotlib for statsmodels on python 3 anymore.
But I wouldn't know to get it for a Linux.

Josef

>
> MVPA_MATPLOTLIB_BACKEND=agg
>
> would it help?
>
>
> P.S. Meanwhile I will upgrade our testing box and will setup everything
> we have for python3 so far ;)
>
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