# NumPy 1.7.2 Release Notes

This is a bugfix only release in the 1.7.x series. It supports Python 2.4 - 2.7 and 3.1 - 3.3 and is the last series that supports Python 2.4 - 2.5.

## Issues fixed

- gh-3153: Do not reuse nditer buffers when not filled enough

- gh-3192: f2py crashes with UnboundLocalError exception

- gh-442: Concatenate with axis=None now requires equal number of array elements

- gh-2485: Fix for astype(‘S’) string truncate issue

- gh-3312: bug in count_nonzero

- gh-2684: numpy.ma.average casts complex to float under certain conditions

- gh-2403: masked array with named components does not behave as expected

- gh-2495: np.ma.compress treated inputs in wrong order

- gh-576: add __len__ method to ma.mvoid

- gh-3364: reduce performance regression of mmap slicing

- gh-3421: fix non-swapping strided copies in GetStridedCopySwap

- gh-3373: fix small leak in datetime metadata initialization

- gh-2791: add platform specific python include directories to search paths

- gh-3168: fix undefined function and add integer divisions

- gh-3301: memmap does not work with TemporaryFile in python3

- gh-3057: distutils.misc_util.get_shared_lib_extension returns wrong debug extension

- gh-3472: add module extensions to load_library search list

- gh-3324: Make comparison function (gt, ge, …) respect __array_priority__

- gh-3497: np.insert behaves incorrectly with argument ‘axis=-1’

- gh-3541: make preprocessor tests consistent in halffloat.c

- gh-3458: array_ass_boolean_subscript() writes ‘non-existent’ data to array

- gh-2892: Regression in ufunc.reduceat with zero-sized index array

- gh-3608: Regression when filling struct from tuple

- gh-3701: add support for Python 3.4 ast.NameConstant

- gh-3712: do not assume that GIL is enabled in xerbla

- gh-3712: fix LAPACK error handling in lapack_litemodule

- gh-3728: f2py fix decref on wrong object

- gh-3743: Hash changed signature in Python 3.3

- gh-3793: scalar int hashing broken on 64 bit python3

- gh-3160: SandboxViolation easyinstalling 1.7.0 on Mac OS X 10.8.3

- gh-3871: npy_math.h has invalid isinf for Solaris with SUNWspro12.2

- gh-2561: Disable check for oldstyle classes in python3

- gh-3900: Ensure NotImplemented is passed on in MaskedArray ufunc’s

- gh-2052: del scalar subscript causes segfault

- gh-3832: fix a few uninitialized uses and memleaks

- gh-3971: f2py changed string.lowercase to string.ascii_lowercase for python3

- gh-3480: numpy.random.binomial raised ValueError for n == 0

- gh-3992: hypot(inf, 0) shouldn’t raise a warning, hypot(inf, inf) wrong result

- gh-4018: Segmentation fault dealing with very large arrays

- gh-4094: fix NaT handling in _strided_to_strided_string_to_datetime

- gh-4051: fix uninitialized use in _strided_to_strided_string_to_datetime

- gh-4123: lexsort segfault

- gh-4141: Fix a few issues that show up with python 3.4b1

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