<p dir="auto">In many places we're checking the numpy version by comparing strings. This will break when numpy gets to 1.10.  Need to fix this all over the codebase for the next release.</p>
<p dir="auto">As mentioned in <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="20963287" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/2992" data-hovercard-type="pull_request" data-hovercard-url="/scipy/scipy/pull/2992/hovercard" href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/2992">#2992</a></p>
<p dir="auto">There are several places where version checking is done as follows:<br>
<code class="notranslate">np.version.short_version &lt; '1.6'</code>.  This will do the wrong thing if numpy ever gets to version 1.10 or higher.</p>