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Building Numpy package fails with TypeError: init() takes from 3 to 4 positional arguments but 13 were given

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I’m trying in build Numpy on Ubuntu Server Xenial (Armbian 5.14). I have installed libexpat1-dev, libpython3-dev, libpython3.5-dev, python3-dev, python3.5-dev, build-essential, gcc, gfortran, gfortran-5, libgfortran-5-dev, libgfortran3, libblas-common, libblas-dev, libblas3, libopenblas-base, libopenblas-dev, cython, libpng-dev. Cloned git repo to a dir and ran python3 setup.py build. Here’s the log:

$ python3 setup.py build

Running from numpy source directory. Cythonizing sources numpy/random/mtrand/mtrand.pyx has not changed Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 390, in <module> setup_package() File "setup.py", line 382, in setup_package setup(**metadata) File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 135, in setup config = configuration() File "setup.py", line 165, in configuration config.add_subpackage('numpy') File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 1001, in add_subpackage caller_level = 2) File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 970, in get_subpackage caller_level = caller_level + 1) File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 907, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py config = setup_module.configuration(*args) File "numpy/setup.py", line 10, in configuration config.add_subpackage('core') File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 1001, in add_subpackage caller_level = 2) File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 970, in get_subpackage caller_level = caller_level + 1) File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 907, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py config = setup_module.configuration(*args) File "numpy/core/setup.py", line 638, in configuration generate_numpy_api] File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 1483, in add_extension ext = Extension(**ext_args) File "/home/odroid/downloads/numpy/numpy/distutils/extension.py", line 52, in __init__ export_symbols) TypeError: __init__() takes from 3 to 4 positional arguments but 13 were given

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charriscommented, Aug 20, 2016

@sisp Aha, looking at newest setuptools definition of class Extensions there is a new __init__ function with arguments

    def __init__(self, name, sources, py_limited_api=False, **kw):
        self.py_limited_api = py_limited_api
        _Extension.__init__(self, name, sources, **kw)

So that definitely looks like a problem, one that should be fixed by using the proper call with keywords in Numpy.

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charriscommented, Aug 21, 2016

@rgommers Re export_symbols, if the symbols aren’t demangled it is probably useless for C++.

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