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| author | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2018-08-23 10:33:34 -0600 |
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| committer | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2018-08-23 13:51:42 -0600 |
| commit | ec7c846cf111114a28e9993fb9335f3c63c97fc7 (patch) | |
| tree | 64f8bff00b2f5b8b33b6e44f469e5f221f4a262a | |
| parent | f22a33b71dc767d81ed60f40c3b84456d2a33f79 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-ec7c846cf111114a28e9993fb9335f3c63c97fc7.tar.gz | |
DOC: Note f2py script extension change on Windows.
Using console_scripts changes the type of the f2py script on Windows
from `*.py` to `*.exe`, so the script can no longer be executed as a
python script. This is a compatibility break and needs mentioning in the
release notes.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst index d11eed2d2..03f4e8479 100644 --- a/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst +++ b/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Deprecations -------------------------------------------- The type dictionaries `numpy.core.typeNA` and `numpy.core.sctypeNA` were buggy -and not documented. They will be removed in the 1.18 release. Use +and not documented. They will be removed in the 1.18 release. Use `numpy.sctypeDict` instead. @@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ Future Changes Compatibility notes =================== +f2py script on Windows +---------------------- +On Windows, the installed script for running f2py is now an ``.exe`` file +rather than a ``*.py`` file and should be run from the command line as ``f2py`` +whenever the ``Scripts`` directory is in the path. Folks needing compatibility +with earler versions of Numpy should run ``f2py`` as a module: ``python -m +numpy.f2py [...]``. + C API changes ============= |