Merge pull request #1384 from nouiz/py24

doc/index.txt

@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ since 2007.  But it is also approachable enough to be used in the classroom
 News
 ====
 
+* Theano 0.6rc3 was released. Everybody is encouraged to update.
+
 * New technical report on Theano: `Theano: new features and speed improvements <http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5590>`_.
   However, please keep citing the other paper below in scientific work involving Theano.
 
-* Theano 0.6rc2 was released. Everybody is encouraged to update.
-
 * `HPCS 2011 Tutorial <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/pointeurs/tutorial_hpcs2011_fixed.pdf>`_.
   We included a few fixes discovered while doing the Tutorial.
 

doc/install.txt

@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ Theano is to download and execute this `Windows installer
 for Theano on AnacondaCE for Windows
 <https://github.com/Theano/Theano-wininstaller/raw/master/bin/theano_installer_latest.msi>`__.
 
-.. note
+.. note::
 
     This installer was tested on Windows 7, 64-bit edition, and AnacondaCE
     version 1.3.1. Please get back to us if you experience trouble with it.

doc/internal/how_to_release.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Update files
 
 Update the NEWS.txt and move the old stuff in the HISTORY.txt file.
 To update the NEWS.txt file, check all ticket closed for this release
-and all commit log messages.
+and all commit log messages. Update the index.txt *News* section.
 
 For the final release, copy the file ``Theano/NEWS.txt`` to
 ``Theano/doc/NEWS.txt``.

theano/tensor/basic.py

@@ -621,7 +621,11 @@ def get_scalar_constant_value(v):
                 #idx_list can contain Scalar Type object.
                 isinstance(v.owner.op.idx_list[0], (int, long,
                                                     numpy.integer))):
-                ret = v.owner.inputs[0].owner.inputs[v.owner.op.idx_list[0]]
+
+                # Python 2.4 don't support indexing with numpy.integer
+                # So we cast it.
+                idx = int(v.owner.op.idx_list[0])
+                ret = v.owner.inputs[0].owner.inputs[idx]
                 ret = get_scalar_constant_value(ret)
                 # MakeVector can cast implicitly its input in some case.
                 return theano._asarray(ret, dtype=v.type.dtype)