Dear Maintainer,
- What led up to the situation?
Installed python3-numpy via apt on Debian 12 (Bookworm) with Python 3.11.2 for data analysis project.
- What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Ran command "sudo apt install python3-numpy" successfully, but importing numpy in Python 3.11.2 failed.
- What was the outcome of this action?
Error message when running "import numpy" in Python 3.11.2 interpreter.
- What outcome did you expect instead?
Successful import of numpy module without errors.

Hi,
I cannot reproduce this on bookworm, neither on amd64 nor on arm64. Can
you give me the exact error message you observe?


Cheers
Timo

I'm sorry, it's been a long time since this happened and I don't recall.  I
fought with it for a long time.  I was getting help from an AI to do this
stuff, and we eventually ran out of options, so it recommended I send this
bug report.  I've never done so before.

I was eventually able to resolve it much later, with the help of a
different AI.  I do not recall all the details, but I believe there was a
conflict between python versions and the system I was using.  I had never
been able to get the virtual environments to work, so I had been using apt
to install modules like numpy systemwide as a workaround.  But that doesn't
always work.

But once that conflict was resolved and everything was using compatible
versions (I vaguely recall it being a 32-bit vs 64-bit thing), virtual
environments, numpy and everything else started working properly.  I
haven't had any trouble with it since.  Unfortunately I'm not able to
recall much better than that.

I'm sorry I can't be more helpful than that, and I probably shouldn't be
sending bug reports on the advice of an AI -- lesson learned -- but thank
you for all the stuff you guys do.  I use python, linux and raspberry pi
all the time for all kinds of projects.  I'm not tech-savvy enough to be
someone like you, but I'm science-savvy enough that these kinds of tools
are wonderful and amazingly helpful.  It's such a great thing to make
technology like this approachable for others.  There's no telling how many
advances and discoveries you guys have contributed to unknowingly.  Thank
you!

Hi Scott,
Sending bugreports is totally fine, sometimes packages break for a
particular edge case, and we cannot fix it if we never hear about it.
However, it is usually helpful to include verbatim error messages and/or
the actual steps which lead to an error.
Glad to hear you got things sorted out!

Cheers
Timo