{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scipy/scipy/issues/5397","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scipy/scipy/issues/5397/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scipy/scipy/issues/5397/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scipy/scipy/issues/5397/events","html_url":"https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/5397","id":112315561,"number":5397,"title":"Numpy 1.10 breaks scipy.io.netcdf_file()","user":{"login":"weatherfrog","id":8851056,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8851056?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog","html_url":"https://github.com/weatherfrog","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/weatherfrog/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-10-20T08:43:41Z","updated_at":"2015-10-20T14:18:51Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Numpy 1.10.* seems to have broken something in ``scipy.io.netcdf_file``. The following code fails silently and leads to extensive memory usage (several GBs). It works as expected with numpy <= 1.9.\r\n```python\r\nfrom scipy.io import netcdf_file\r\n\r\nnc = netcdf_file(\"data.nc\")\r\n```\r\nIt does not happen with all netcdf files, though. Here you can download a netcdf3 file that reproduces the error (be prepared to hit Ctrl+C before your memory is exhausted):\r\nhttps://github.com/weatherfrog/notebooks/blob/master/data.nc?raw=true\r\nTested with Python 2.7/3.4 on Linux and OS X (64 Bit). ``scipy.__version__ == '0.16.0'``."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scipy/scipy/issues/comments/149581777","html_url":"https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/5397#issuecomment-149581777","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scipy/scipy/issues/5397","id":149581777,"user":{"login":"charris","id":77272,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/77272?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris","html_url":"https://github.com/charris","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/charris/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-20T14:18:51Z","updated_at":"2015-10-20T14:18:51Z","body":"I wonder if this is related to #6467? The report there is of slowdowns, not memory consumption though. A fix for that has been merged, is it possible that you can test with the current 1.10.x branch?"}}