Release Notes

NumPy 1.3.0 Release Notes

This minor includes numerous bug fixes, official python 2.6 support, and several new features such as generalized ufuncs.

Highlights

Python 2.6 support

Python 2.6 is now supported on all previously supported platforms, including windows.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Generalized ufuncs

There is a general need for looping over not only functions on scalars but also over functions on vectors (or arrays), as explained on http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/GeneralLoopingFunctions. We propose to realize this concept by generalizing the universal functions (ufuncs), and provide a C implementation that adds ~500 lines to the numpy code base. In current (specialized) ufuncs, the elementary function is limited to element-by-element operations, whereas the generalized version supports “sub-array” by “sub-array” operations. The Perl vector library PDL provides a similar functionality and its terms are re-used in the following.

Each generalized ufunc has information associated with it that states what the “core” dimensionality of the inputs is, as well as the corresponding dimensionality of the outputs (the element-wise ufuncs have zero core dimensions). The list of the core dimensions for all arguments is called the “signature” of a ufunc. For example, the ufunc numpy.add has signature “(),()->()” defining two scalar inputs and one scalar output.

Another example is (see the GeneralLoopingFunctions page) the function inner1d(a,b) with a signature of “(i),(i)->()”. This applies the inner product along the last axis of each input, but keeps the remaining indices intact. For example, where a is of shape (3,5,N) and b is of shape (5,N), this will return an output of shape (3,5). The underlying elementary function is called 3*5 times. In the signature, we specify one core dimension “(i)” for each input and zero core dimensions “()” for the output, since it takes two 1-d arrays and returns a scalar. By using the same name “i”, we specify that the two corresponding dimensions should be of the same size (or one of them is of size 1 and will be broadcasted).

The dimensions beyond the core dimensions are called “loop” dimensions. In the above example, this corresponds to (3,5).

The usual numpy “broadcasting” rules apply, where the signature determines how the dimensions of each input/output object are split into core and loop dimensions:

While an input array has a smaller dimensionality than the corresponding number of core dimensions, 1’s are pre-pended to its shape. The core dimensions are removed from all inputs and the remaining dimensions are broadcasted; defining the loop dimensions. The output is given by the loop dimensions plus the output core dimensions.

Experimental Windows 64 bits support

Numpy can now be built on windows 64 bits (amd64 only, not IA64), with both MS compilers and mingw-w64 compilers:

This is highly experimental: DO NOT USE FOR PRODUCTION USE. See INSTALL.txt, Windows 64 bits section for more information on limitations and how to build it by yourself.

New features

Formatting issues

Float formatting is now handled by numpy instead of the C runtime: this enables locale independent formatting, more robust fromstring and related methods. Special values (inf and nan) are also more consistent across platforms (nan vs IND/NaN, etc...), and more consistent with recent python formatting work (in 2.6 and later).

Nan handling in max/min

The maximum/minimum ufuncs now reliably propagate nans. If one of the arguments is a nan, then nan is retured. This affects np.min/np.max, amin/amax and the array methods max/min. New ufuncs fmax and fmin have been added to deal with non-propagating nans.

Nan handling in sign

The ufunc sign now returns nan for the sign of anan.

New ufuncs

1. fmax - same as maximum for integer types and non-nan floats. Returns the non-nan argument if one argument is nan and returns nan if both arguments are nan.
2. fmin - same as minimum for integer types and non-nan floats. Returns the non-nan argument if one argument is nan and returns nan if both arguments are nan.
3. deg2rad - converts degrees to radians, same as the radians ufunc.
4. rad2deg - converts radians to degrees, same as the degrees ufunc.
5. log2 - base 2 logarithm.
6. exp2 - base 2 exponential.
7. trunc - truncate floats to nearest integer towards zero.
8. logaddexp - add numbers stored as logarithms and return the logarithm of the result.
9. logaddexp2 - add numbers stored as base 2 logarithms and return the base 2 logarithm of the result result.

Masked arrays

Several new features and bug fixes, including:

• structured arrays should now be fully supported by MaskedArray (r6463, r6324, r6305, r6300, r6294...)
• Minor bug fixes (r6356, r6352, r6335, r6299, r6298)
• Improved support for __iter__ (r6326)
• made baseclass, sharedmask and hardmask accesible to the user (but read-only)
• doc update

gfortran support on windows

Gfortran can now be used as a fortran compiler for numpy on windows, even when the C compiler is Visual Studio (VS 2005 and above; VS 2003 will NOT work). Gfortran + Visual studio does not work on windows 64 bits (but gcc + gfortran does). It is unclear whether it will be possible to use gfortran and visual studio at all on x64.

Arch option for windows binary

Automatic arch detection can now be bypassed from the command line for the superpack installed:

numpy-1.3.0-superpack-win32.exe /arch=nosse

will install a numpy which works on any x86, even if the running computer supports SSE set.

Deprecated features

Histogram

The semantics of histogram has been modified to fix long-standing issues with outliers handling. The main changes concern

1. the definition of the bin edges, now including the rightmost edge, and
2. the handling of upper outliers, now ignored rather than tallied in the rightmost bin.

The previous behavior is still accessible using new=False, but this is deprecated, and will be removed entirely in 1.4.0.

Documentation changes

A lot of documentation has been added. Both user guide and references can be built from sphinx.

New C API

Multiarray API

The following functions have been added to the multiarray C API:

• PyArray_GetEndianness: to get runtime endianness

Ufunc API

The following functions have been added to the ufunc API:

• PyUFunc_FromFuncAndDataAndSignature: to declare a more general ufunc (generalized ufunc).

New defines

New public C defines are available for ARCH specific code through numpy/npy_cpu.h:

• NPY_CPU_X86: x86 arch (32 bits)
• NPY_CPU_AMD64: amd64 arch (x86_64, NOT Itanium)
• NPY_CPU_PPC: 32 bits ppc
• NPY_CPU_PPC64: 64 bits ppc
• NPY_CPU_SPARC: 32 bits sparc
• NPY_CPU_SPARC64: 64 bits sparc
• NPY_CPU_S390: S390
• NPY_CPU_IA64: ia64
• NPY_CPU_PARISC: PARISC

New macros for CPU endianness has been added as well (see internal changes below for details):

• NPY_BYTE_ORDER: integer
• NPY_LITTLE_ENDIAN/NPY_BIG_ENDIAN defines

Those provide portable alternatives to glibc endian.h macros for platforms without it.

Portable NAN, INFINITY, etc...

npy_math.h now makes available several portable macro to get NAN, INFINITY:

• NPY_NAN: equivalent to NAN, which is a GNU extension
• NPY_INFINITY: equivalent to C99 INFINITY
• NPY_PZERO, NPY_NZERO: positive and negative zero respectively

Corresponding single and extended precision macros are available as well. All references to NAN, or home-grown computation of NAN on the fly have been removed for consistency.

Internal changes

numpy.core math configuration revamp

This should make the porting to new platforms easier, and more robust. In particular, the configuration stage does not need to execute any code on the target platform, which is a first step toward cross-compilation.

http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/browser/trunk/doc/neps/math_config_clean.txt

umath refactor

A lot of code cleanup for umath/ufunc code (charris).

Improvements to build warnings

Numpy can now build with -W -Wall without warnings

http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/browser/trunk/doc/neps/warnfix.txt

Separate core math library

The core math functions (sin, cos, etc... for basic C types) have been put into a separate library; it acts as a compatibility layer, to support most C99 maths functions (real only for now). The library includes platform-specific fixes for various maths functions, such as using those versions should be more robust than using your platform functions directly. The API for existing functions is exactly the same as the C99 math functions API; the only difference is the npy prefix (npy_cos vs cos).

The core library will be made available to any extension in 1.4.0.

CPU arch detection

npy_cpu.h defines numpy specific CPU defines, such as NPY_CPU_X86, etc... Those are portable across OS and toolchains, and set up when the header is parsed, so that they can be safely used even in the case of cross-compilation (the values is not set when numpy is built), or for multi-arch binaries (e.g. fat binaries on Max OS X).

npy_endian.h defines numpy specific endianness defines, modeled on the glibc endian.h. NPY_BYTE_ORDER is equivalent to BYTE_ORDER, and one of NPY_LITTLE_ENDIAN or NPY_BIG_ENDIAN is defined. As for CPU archs, those are set when the header is parsed by the compiler, and as such can be used for cross-compilation and multi-arch binaries.

NumPy 1.4.0 Release Notes

This minor includes numerous bug fixes, as well as a few new features. It is backward compatible with 1.3.0 release.

Highlights

• New datetime dtype support to deal with dates in arrays
• Faster import time
• Extended array wrapping mechanism for ufuncs
• New Neighborhood iterator (C-level only)
• C99-like complex functions in npymath

New features

Extended array wrapping mechanism for ufuncs

An __array_prepare__ method has been added to ndarray to provide subclasses greater flexibility to interact with ufuncs and ufunc-like functions. ndarray already provided __array_wrap__, which allowed subclasses to set the array type for the result and populate metadata on the way out of the ufunc (as seen in the implementation of MaskedArray). For some applications it is necessary to provide checks and populate metadata on the way in. __array_prepare__ is therefore called just after the ufunc has initialized the output array but before computing the results and populating it. This way, checks can be made and errors raised before operations which may modify data in place.

Automatic detection of forward incompatibilities

Previously, if an extension was built against a version N of NumPy, and used on a system with NumPy M < N, the import_array was successfull, which could cause crashes because the version M does not have a function in N. Starting from NumPy 1.4.0, this will cause a failure in import_array, so the error will be catched early on.

New iterators

A new neighborhood iterator has been added to the C API. It can be used to iterate over the items in a neighborhood of an array, and can handle boundaries conditions automatically. Zero and one padding are available, as well as arbitrary constant value, mirror and circular padding.

New polynomial support

New modules chebyshev and polynomial have been added. The new polynomial module is not compatible with the current polynomial support in numpy, but is much like the new chebyshev module. The most noticeable difference to most will be that coefficients are specified from low to high power, that the low level functions do not work with the Chebyshev and Polynomial classes as arguements, and that the Chebyshev and Polynomial classes include a domain. Mapping between domains is a linear substitution and the two classes can be converted one to the other, allowing, for instance, a Chebyshev series in one domain to be expanded as a polynomial in another domain. The new classes should generally be used instead of the low level functions, the latter are provided for those who wish to build their own classes.

The new modules are not automatically imported into the numpy namespace, they must be explicitly brought in with an “import numpy.polynomial” statement.

New C API

The following C functions have been added to the C API:

1. PyArray_GetNDArrayCFeatureVersion: return the API version of the loaded numpy.
2. PyArray_Correlate2 - like PyArray_Correlate, but implements the usual definition of correlation. Inputs are not swapped, and conjugate is taken for complex arrays.
3. PyArray_NeighborhoodIterNew - a new iterator to iterate over a neighborhood of a point, with automatic boundaries handling. It is documented in the iterators section of the C-API reference, and you can find some examples in the multiarray_test.c.src file in numpy.core.

New ufuncs

The following ufuncs have been added to the C API:

1. copysign - return the value of the first argument with the sign copied from the second argument.
2. nextafter - return the next representable floating point value of the first argument toward the second argument.

New defines

The alpha processor is now defined and available in numpy/npy_cpu.h. The failed detection of the PARISC processor has been fixed. The defines are:

1. NPY_CPU_HPPA: PARISC
2. NPY_CPU_ALPHA: Alpha

Testing

1. deprecated decorator: this decorator may be used to avoid cluttering testing output while testing DeprecationWarning is effectively raised by the decorated test.
2. assert_array_almost_equal_nulps: new method to compare two arrays of floating point values. With this function, two values are considered close if there are not many representable floating point values in between, thus being more robust than assert_array_almost_equal when the values fluctuate a lot.
3. assert_array_max_ulp: raise an assertion if there are more than N representable numbers between two floating point values.
4. assert_warns: raise an AssertionError if a callable does not generate a warning of the appropriate class, without altering the warning state.

Reusing npymath

In 1.3.0, we started putting portable C math routines in npymath library, so that people can use those to write portable extensions. Unfortunately, it was not possible to easily link against this library: in 1.4.0, support has been added to numpy.distutils so that 3rd party can reuse this library. See coremath documentation for more information.

Improved set operations

In previous versions of NumPy some set functions (intersect1d, setxor1d, setdiff1d and setmember1d) could return incorrect results if the input arrays contained duplicate items. These now work correctly for input arrays with duplicates. setmember1d has been renamed to in1d, as with the change to accept arrays with duplicates it is no longer a set operation, and is conceptually similar to an elementwise version of the Python operator ‘in’. All of these functions now accept the boolean keyword assume_unique. This is False by default, but can be set True if the input arrays are known not to contain duplicates, which can increase the functions’ execution speed.

Improvements

1. numpy import is noticeably faster (from 20 to 30 % depending on the platform and computer)

2. The sort functions now sort nans to the end.

   • Real sort order is [R, nan]
   • Complex sort order is [R + Rj, R + nanj, nan + Rj, nan + nanj]

   Complex numbers with the same nan placements are sorted according to the non-nan part if it exists.

3. The type comparison functions have been made consistent with the new sort order of nans. Searchsorted now works with sorted arrays containing nan values.

4. Complex division has been made more resistent to overflow.

5. Complex floor division has been made more resistent to overflow.

Deprecations

The following functions are deprecated:

1. correlate: it takes a new keyword argument old_behavior. When True (the default), it returns the same result as before. When False, compute the conventional correlation, and take the conjugate for complex arrays. The old behavior will be removed in NumPy 1.5, and raises a DeprecationWarning in 1.4.
2. unique1d: use unique instead. unique1d raises a deprecation warning in 1.4, and will be removed in 1.5.
3. intersect1d_nu: use intersect1d instead. intersect1d_nu raises a deprecation warning in 1.4, and will be removed in 1.5.
4. setmember1d: use in1d instead. setmember1d raises a deprecation warning in 1.4, and will be removed in 1.5.

The following raise errors:

1. When operating on 0-d arrays, numpy.max and other functions accept only axis=0, axis=-1 and axis=None. Using an out-of-bounds axes is an indication of a bug, so Numpy raises an error for these cases now.
2. Specifying axis > MAX_DIMS is no longer allowed; Numpy raises now an error instead of behaving similarly as for axis=None.

Internal changes

Use C99 complex functions when available

The numpy complex types are now guaranteed to be ABI compatible with C99 complex type, if availble on the platform. Moreoever, the complex ufunc now use the platform C99 functions intead of our own.

split multiarray and umath source code

The source code of multiarray and umath has been split into separate logic compilation units. This should make the source code more amenable for newcomers.

Separate compilation

By default, every file of multiarray (and umath) is merged into one for compilation as was the case before, but if NPY_SEPARATE_COMPILATION env variable is set to a non-negative value, experimental individual compilation of each file is enabled. This makes the compile/debug cycle much faster when working on core numpy.

Separate core math library

New functions which have been added:

• npy_copysign
• npy_nextafter
• npy_cpack
• npy_creal
• npy_cimag
• npy_cabs
• npy_cexp
• npy_clog
• npy_cpow
• npy_csqr
• npy_ccos
• npy_csin

NumPy 1.5.0 Release Notes

Highlights

This is the first NumPy release which is compatible with Python 3. Support for Python 3 and Python 2 is done from a single code base. Extensive notes on changes can be found at http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/browser/trunk/doc/Py3K.txt.

Note that the Numpy testing framework relies on nose, which does not have a Python 3 compatible release yet. A working Python 3 branch of nose can be found at http://bitbucket.org/jpellerin/nose3/ however.

Porting of SciPy to Python 3 is expected to be completed soon.

The new buffer protocol described by PEP 3118 is fully supported in this version of Numpy. On Python versions >= 2.6 Numpy arrays expose the buffer interface, and array(), asarray() and other functions accept new-style buffers as input.

New features

Numpy now emits a numpy.ComplexWarning when a complex number is cast into a real number. For example:

>>> x = np.array([1,2,3])
>>> x[:2] = np.array([1+2j, 1-2j])
ComplexWarning: Casting complex values to real discards the imaginary part

The cast indeed discards the imaginary part, and this may not be the intended behavior in all cases, hence the warning. This warning can be turned off in the standard way:

>>> import warnings
>>> warnings.simplefilter("ignore", np.ComplexWarning)

Ndarrays now have the dot product also as a method, which allows writing chains of matrix products as

>>> a.dot(b).dot(c)

instead of the longer alternative

>>> np.dot(a, np.dot(b, c))

The slogdet function returns the sign and logarithm of the determinant of a matrix. Because the determinant may involve the product of many small/large values, the result is often more accurate than that obtained by simple multiplication.

The new header file ndarraytypes.h contains the symbols from ndarrayobject.h that do not depend on the PY_ARRAY_UNIQUE_SYMBOL and NO_IMPORT/_ARRAY macros. Broadly, these symbols are types, typedefs, and enumerations; the array function calls are left in ndarrayobject.h. This allows users to include array-related types and enumerations without needing to concern themselves with the macro expansions and their side- effects.

Changes

• The polyint and polyder functions now check that the specified number integrations or derivations is a non-negative integer. The number 0 is a valid value for both functions.
• A degree method has been added to the Polynomial class.
• A trimdeg method has been added to the Polynomial class. It operates like truncate except that the argument is the desired degree of the result, not the number of coefficients.
• Polynomial.fit now uses None as the default domain for the fit. The default Polynomial domain can be specified by using [] as the domain value.
• Weights can be used in both polyfit and Polynomial.fit
• A linspace method has been added to the Polynomial class to ease plotting.
• The polymulx function was added.

• The chebint and chebder functions now check that the specified number integrations or derivations is a non-negative integer. The number 0 is a valid value for both functions.
• A degree method has been added to the Chebyshev class.
• A trimdeg method has been added to the Chebyshev class. It operates like truncate except that the argument is the desired degree of the result, not the number of coefficients.
• Chebyshev.fit now uses None as the default domain for the fit. The default Chebyshev domain can be specified by using [] as the domain value.
• Weights can be used in both chebfit and Chebyshev.fit
• A linspace method has been added to the Chebyshev class to ease plotting.
• The chebmulx function was added.
• Added functions for the Chebyshev points of the first and second kind.

After a two years transition period, the old behavior of the histogram function has been phased out, and the “new” keyword has been removed.

The old behavior of correlate was deprecated in 1.4.0, the new behavior (the usual definition for cross-correlation) is now the default.

NumPy 1.6.0 Release Notes

This release includes several new features as well as numerous bug fixes and improved documentation. It is backward compatible with the 1.5.0 release, and supports Python 2.4 - 2.7 and 3.1 - 3.2.

Highlights

• Re-introduction of datetime dtype support to deal with dates in arrays.
• A new 16-bit floating point type.
• A new iterator, which improves performance of many functions.

New features

This release adds support for the IEEE 754-2008 binary16 format, available as the data type numpy.half. Within Python, the type behaves similarly to float or double, and C extensions can add support for it with the exposed half-float API.

A new iterator has been added, replacing the functionality of the existing iterator and multi-iterator with a single object and API. This iterator works well with general memory layouts different from C or Fortran contiguous, and handles both standard NumPy and customized broadcasting. The buffering, automatic data type conversion, and optional output parameters, offered by ufuncs but difficult to replicate elsewhere, are now exposed by this iterator.

Extend the number of polynomials available in the polynomial package. In addition, a new window attribute has been added to the classes in order to specify the range the domain maps to. This is mostly useful for the Laguerre, Hermite, and HermiteE polynomials whose natural domains are infinite and provides a more intuitive way to get the correct mapping of values without playing unnatural tricks with the domain.

F2py now supports wrapping Fortran 90 routines that use assumed shape arrays. Before such routines could be called from Python but the corresponding Fortran routines received assumed shape arrays as zero length arrays which caused unpredicted results. Thanks to Lorenz Hüdepohl for pointing out the correct way to interface routines with assumed shape arrays.

In addition, f2py supports now automatic wrapping of Fortran routines that use two argument size function in dimension specifications.

numpy.ravel_multi_index : Converts a multi-index tuple into an array of flat indices, applying boundary modes to the indices.

numpy.einsum : Evaluate the Einstein summation convention. Using the Einstein summation convention, many common multi-dimensional array operations can be represented in a simple fashion. This function provides a way compute such summations.

numpy.count_nonzero : Counts the number of non-zero elements in an array.

numpy.result_type and numpy.min_scalar_type : These functions expose the underlying type promotion used by the ufuncs and other operations to determine the types of outputs. These improve upon the numpy.common_type and numpy.mintypecode which provide similar functionality but do not match the ufunc implementation.

Changes

The default error handling has been change from print to warn for all except for underflow, which remains as ignore.

Several new compilers are supported for building Numpy: the Portland Group Fortran compiler on OS X, the PathScale compiler suite and the 64-bit Intel C compiler on Linux.

The testing framework gained numpy.testing.assert_allclose, which provides a more convenient way to compare floating point arrays than assert_almost_equal, assert_approx_equal and assert_array_almost_equal.

In addition to the APIs for the new iterator and half data type, a number of other additions have been made to the C API. The type promotion mechanism used by ufuncs is exposed via PyArray_PromoteTypes, PyArray_ResultType, and PyArray_MinScalarType. A new enumeration NPY_CASTING has been added which controls what types of casts are permitted. This is used by the new functions PyArray_CanCastArrayTo and PyArray_CanCastTypeTo. A more flexible way to handle conversion of arbitrary python objects into arrays is exposed by PyArray_GetArrayParamsFromObject.

Deprecated features

The “normed” keyword in numpy.histogram is deprecated. Its functionality will be replaced by the new “density” keyword.

Removed features

The functions refft, refft2, refftn, irefft, irefft2, irefftn, which were aliases for the same functions without the ‘e’ in the name, were removed.

The sync() and close() methods of memmap were removed. Use flush() and “del memmap” instead.

The deprecated functions numpy.unique1d, numpy.setmember1d, numpy.intersect1d_nu and numpy.lib.ufunclike.log2 were removed.

Several deprecated items were removed from the numpy.ma module:

* ``numpy.ma.MaskedArray`` "raw_data" method
* ``numpy.ma.MaskedArray`` constructor "flag" keyword
* ``numpy.ma.make_mask`` "flag" keyword
* ``numpy.ma.allclose`` "fill_value" keyword

The numpy.get_numpy_include function was removed, use numpy.get_include instead.

NumPy 1.6.1 Release Notes

This is a bugfix only release in the 1.6.x series.

#1834 einsum fails for specific shapes #1837 einsum throws nan or freezes python for specific array shapes #1838 object <-> structured type arrays regression #1851 regression for SWIG based code in 1.6.0 #1863 Buggy results when operating on array copied with astype() #1870 Fix corner case of object array assignment #1843 Py3k: fix error with recarray #1885 nditer: Error in detecting double reduction loop #1874 f2py: fix –include_paths bug #1749 Fix ctypes.load_library() #1895/1896 iter: writeonly operands weren’t always being buffered correctly

NumPy 1.6.2 Release Notes

This is a bugfix release in the 1.6.x series. Due to the delay of the NumPy 1.7.0 release, this release contains far more fixes than a regular NumPy bugfix release. It also includes a number of documentation and build improvements.

#2063 make unique() return consistent index #1138 allow creating arrays from empty buffers or empty slices #1446 correct note about correspondence vstack and concatenate #1149 make argmin() work for datetime #1672 fix allclose() to work for scalar inf #1747 make np.median() work for 0-D arrays #1776 make complex division by zero to yield inf properly #1675 add scalar support for the format() function #1905 explicitly check for NaNs in allclose() #1952 allow floating ddof in std() and var() #1948 fix regression for indexing chararrays with empty list #2017 fix type hashing #2046 deleting array attributes causes segfault #2033 a**2.0 has incorrect type #2045 make attribute/iterator_element deletions not segfault #2021 fix segfault in searchsorted() #2073 fix float16 __array_interface__ bug

#2048 break reference cycle in NpzFile #1573 savetxt() now handles complex arrays #1387 allow bincount() to accept empty arrays #1899 fixed histogramdd() bug with empty inputs #1793 fix failing npyio test under py3k #1936 fix extra nesting for subarray dtypes #1848 make tril/triu return the same dtype as the original array #1918 use Py_TYPE to access ob_type, so it works also on Py3

ENH: Introduce new options extra_f77_compiler_args and extra_f90_compiler_args BLD: Improve reporting of fcompiler value BUG: Fix f2py test_kind.py test

ENH: Add some tests for polynomial printing ENH: Add companion matrix functions DOC: Rearrange the polynomial documents BUG: Fix up links to classes DOC: Add version added to some of the polynomial package modules DOC: Document xxxfit functions in the polynomial package modules BUG: The polynomial convenience classes let different types interact DOC: Document the use of the polynomial convenience classes DOC: Improve numpy reference documentation of polynomial classes ENH: Improve the computation of polynomials from roots STY: Code cleanup in polynomial [*]fromroots functions DOC: Remove references to cast and NA, which were added in 1.7

#1261 change compile flag on AIX from -O5 to -O3 #1377 update HP compiler flags #1383 provide better support for C++ code on HPUX #1857 fix build for py3k + pip BLD: raise a clearer warning in case of building without cleaning up first BLD: follow build_ext coding convention in build_clib BLD: fix up detection of Intel CPU on OS X in system_info.py BLD: add support for the new X11 directory structure on Ubuntu & co. BLD: add ufsparse to the libraries search path. BLD: add ‘pgfortran’ as a valid compiler in the Portland Group BLD: update version match regexp for IBM AIX Fortran compilers.

BUG: Use npy_intp instead of long in mtrand