Comment 0 for bug 1041302

1.
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

2.
python-scientific:
  Installed: 2.8-2build1
  Candidate: 2.8-2build1
  Version table:
 *** 2.8-2build1 0
        500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3.
python -c "import numpy as np; import Scientific.IO.NetCDF as nc; ncf = nc.NetCDFFile('t.nc','w'); ncf.createDimension('dim2', 2); ncf.createDimension('n',2); sym = ncf.createVariable('d','c',('n','dim2')); sym[:] = [' C', ' O']; print sym[:]"

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: could not convert string to float: C

4.
This is probably due to python-scientific being built with an older version of python-numpy (or python?).
After rebuilding python-scientific according to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/20
and installing the resulting python-netcdf the above one-liner works.