Add 'compiler' Python module into release

Numpy uses the 'compiler' module for some file loading operations.

I believe this is already done. @ben.boeckel already added support for all Python modules back in ParaView SB.

Hmm, I'm not seeing it in the list. Looking, it seems it is a directory and that's why I overlooked it. I have an MR.

Yeah, apparently not all were added to the whitelist.

Support added to common-superbuild. Just need to bump common-superbuild.

MR for bumping common superbuild at !257 (merged).

compiler is now added to the binaries

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Hi Kitware's developers

I am the original reporter for the bug that led to this thread.

It is related to the use of specific numpy functions from ParaView. My code was working with ParaView 5.1.2, but not anymore with version 5.2.0. I want to report that it is still not working with version 5.3.0 RC3.

Here is the original bug report http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2017-January/038890.html

The code I am trying to test is presented here:

import os
import tempfile
import numpy as np
outputFilename = os.path.join(tempfile.mkdtemp(), 'dummy.npz')
varName='Time'
np.savez(outputFilename, **{varName:np.random.rand(3,4)})
d = np.load(outputFilename)
time = d[varName]
d.close()
os.remove(outputFilename)
print('Success PV can create a NPZ file and read its content : ' + outputFilename)

With PV 5.1.2, it worked as a charm. With PV 5.3.0 RC3 here is the error message

Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 27 2016, 14:23:08) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
>>> from paraview.simple import *
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
  File "D:\ParaView-5.3.0-RC3-Qt5-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\npyio.py", line 250, in __getitem__
    return format.read_array(bytes)
  File "D:\ParaView-5.3.0-RC3-Qt5-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\format.py", line 437, in read_array
    shape, fortran_order, dtype = read_array_header_1_0(fp)
  File "D:\ParaView-5.3.0-RC3-Qt5-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\format.py", line 334, in read_array_header_1_0
    d = safe_eval(header)
  File "D:\ParaView-5.3.0-RC3-Qt5-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\utils.py", line 1132, in safe_eval
    return walker.visit(ast)
  File "D:\ParaView-5.3.0-RC3-Qt5-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\utils.py", line 980, in visit
    return meth(node, **kw)
  File "D:\ParaView-5.3.0-RC3-Qt5-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\utils.py", line 987, in visitExpression
    for child in node.getChildNodes():
AttributeError: 'Expression' object has no attribute 'getChildNodes'
>>> 

That doesn't look related to this issue; please open a new one.

Eh, maybe it's related, but I'd rather not change the title description so drastically.

mentioned in issue paraview#17262 (closed)

@ben.boeckel : I have created the new issue paraview#17262 (closed)