RuntimeError: more argument specifiers than keyword list entries (Trac #821)

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Original ticket http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/821 on 2008-12-21 by @nilswagner01, assigned to unknown.

scipy.test() wrt python2.6 produces several errors of the following type

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ERROR: test_simple_complex (test_decomp.TestSVD)                      
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Traceback (most recent call last):                                    
  File "/home/nwagner/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/linalg/tests/test_decomp.py", line 716, in test_simple_complex
    u,s,vh = svd(a)                                                                                                           
  File "/home/nwagner/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/linalg/decomp.py", line 916, in svd                           
    lwork = calc_lwork.gesdd(gesdd.prefix,m,n,compute_uv)[1]                                                                  
RuntimeError: more argument specifiers than keyword list entries (remaining format:'|:calc_lwork.gesdd')

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@nilswagner01 wrote on 2008-12-22

See [http://bugs.python.org/issue4720].

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@pearu wrote on 2008-12-23

The cause of this issue has been fixed in Python 2.6 trunk
and a workaround is implemented in Numpy svn repository:
http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/changeset/6193