[Spice_discussion] Upcoming version 6.0.0 of SpiceyPy

[Annex, Andrew M.]


Hello all,

A user recently alerted me about an issue (https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/AndrewAnnex/SpiceyPy/issues/473__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!MNw59uAq8zC1KzZcgmg63L8cSGzZU8odY0VQxBAay9Al0kkcnSLgKBXltKzplBBm7mc9FEwg51ihAvnNmj4spBSyskyyg0k$ ) with two SpiceyPy functions (tkfram and zzdynrot) that were returning transposed (fortran-order) matrices. These functions were introduced back when N66 CSPICE was the latest release, so both were wrapping the fortran-translated versions of the functions and as such are maybe not used that commonly. The fix is simply to transpose the results for unpatched versions of spiceypy.

See the link above for further information, but the end result is that I am preparing to issue a new 6.0.0 release of SpiceyPy in the coming weeks with the fix included. If you use either of these two functions within your codebase you will either need to pin to older releases of SpiceyPy (current 5.1.2), or update your code to use the corrected behavior.

Because I have a few things going on, and I may want to make a few other small changes I have not set a target release date yet, but it will likely be around September 1st.


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Andrew M. Annex
He/Him/His
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
MC 150-21, South Mudd
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