Currently it requires NumPy 1.7 due to using the copyto method (http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.copyto.html) for extracting data out of an array.
Replace it with a fallback
Author: Sandeep <sandeep@techaddict.me>
Closes#391 from techaddict/1426 and squashes the following commits:
d365962 [Sandeep] SPARK-1426: Make MLlib work with NumPy versions older than 1.7 Currently it requires NumPy 1.7 due to using the copyto method (http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.copyto.html) for extracting data out of an array. Replace it with a fallback
The reason it wasn't working was passing a bytearray to stream.write(), which is not supported in Python 2.6 but is in 2.7. (This array came from NumPy when we converted data to send it over to Java). Now we just convert those bytearrays to strings of bytes, which preserves nonprintable characters as well.
Author: Matei Zaharia <matei@databricks.com>
Closes#335 from mateiz/mllib-python-2.6 and squashes the following commits:
f26c59f [Matei Zaharia] Update docs to no longer say we need Python 2.7
a84d6af [Matei Zaharia] SPARK-1421. Make MLlib work on Python 2.6