[Python-modules-team] Bug#519440: python-scipy: take care about deprecation warnings from numpy

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: python-scipy
Version: 0.6.0-12
Severity: normal

Any code which uses scipy and numpy on debian sid now provokes a flood of deprecation warnings like:

In [1]:import scipy
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/misc/__init__.py:25: DeprecationWarning: NumpyTest will be removed in the next release; please update your code to use nose or unittest
  test = NumpyTest().test

In [4]:mimport scipy.linalg
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/linalg/__init__.py:32: DeprecationWarning: NumpyTest will be removed in the next release; please update your code to use nose or unittest
  test = NumpyTest().test


and more of scipy you import more you get of those... why should I
care about receiving these ones if I don't use NumpyTest per se?

If you are aware of this issue I would humbly appreciate if some
action is taken... my little mind finds only a cruel suggestion to wrap
those test instantiations within

warnings.simplefilter('ignore', DeprecationWarning)
test = NumpyTest().test
warnings.simplefilter('defaul', DeprecationWarning)

but I hope that there is a better way, like defining a custom filter to
catch those known deprecation issues

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-scipy depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [libla 3.6.0-22.1~debug Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libatlas3gf-sse [liblap 3.6.0-22.1~debug Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libatlas3gf-sse2 [libla 3.6.0-22.1~debug Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so. 1.2-2            Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                   2.9-4            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfftw3-3              3.1.2-3.1        library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3.1-9        GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3            4.3.1-9          Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapack 3.1.1-1          library of linear algebra routines
ii  libstdc++6              4.3.1-9          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.1.0    3.1.0-3          collection of libraries for comput
ii  python                  2.5.2-2          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central          0.6.11           register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-imaging          1.1.6-3          Python Imaging Library
ii  python-numpy            1:1.2.1-1        Numerical Python adds a fast array

Versions of packages python-scipy recommends:
ii  g++ [c++-compiler]           4:4.3.1-2   The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-2.95 [c++-compiler]      1:2.95.4-27 The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-3.2 [c++-compiler]       1:3.2.3-9   The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-3.3 [c++-compiler]       1:3.3.6-15  The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-4.0 [c++-compiler]       4.0.3-7     The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-4.1 [c++-compiler]       4.1.2-25    The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-4.2 [c++-compiler]       4.2.4-6     The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-4.3 [c++-compiler]       4.3.1-9     The GNU C++ compiler

Versions of packages python-scipy suggests:
ii  python-profiler               2.5.2-1    deterministic profiling of any Pyt

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