numba.core.errors.TypingError: Failed in nopython mode pipeline (step: nopython frontend) non-precise type pyobject

[roniemartinez]

Thanks for writing this module. 🚀

We recently installed darts/prophet for another use (NOT for haversine) and that created a side-effect affecting this module which was working before. The related code is at https://github.com/mapado/haversine/blob/main/haversine/haversine.py#L172-L178

We don't want to use haversine with numba. Is there a way to disable this?

numba.core.errors.TypingError: Failed in nopython mode pipeline (step: nopython frontend)
non-precise type pyobject
During: typing of argument at /opt/breww-venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/haversine/haversine.py (116)

File "../opt/breww-venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/haversine/haversine.py", line 116:

    def _haversine_kernel(lat1, lng1, lat2, lng2):
    ^

During: Pass nopython_type_inference 

This error may have been caused by the following argument(s):
- argument 0: Cannot determine Numba type of <class 'decimal.Decimal'>
- argument 1: Cannot determine Numba type of <class 'decimal.Decimal'>
- argument 2: Cannot determine Numba type of <class 'decimal.Decimal'>
- argument 3: Cannot determine Numba type of <class 'decimal.Decimal'>

[jdeniau]

numpy should be faster if installed. Your issue seems to be a typing issue though. Is it a runtime issue or just a type-checking one ?

I would prefer not adding a new API option to disable that functionality.

Do you have a minimal reproductible case that may help debugging ?

Thanks

[roniemartinez]

numpy should be faster if installed.

The error is resulting from numba and not from numpy (we have been happily using numpy)

Your issue seems to be a typing issue though. Is it a runtime issue or just a type-checking one ?

It is a runtime issue.

I would prefer not adding a new API option to disable that functionality.

Probably a bug in the implementation.

Do you have a minimal reproductible case that may help debugging ?

Please see https://github.com/roniemartinez/haversine-bug (just uninstall numba to see that it is working properly).

haversine() works properly when numba is uninstalled. But given that in real-world, we have numba as a "Transitive dependency" of darts, we have no control over it.

[CrapsJeroen]

The easy solution might be to just "convert" to the coordinates to float, but you're taking a performance hit compared to baseline. So I don't know what the preferred approach to fix this might be.

def haversine(point1, point2, unit=Unit.KILOMETERS, normalize=False, check=True):

    # unpack latitude/longitude
    lat1, lng1 = point1
    lat2, lng2 = point2

    # Convert to float before Numba compilation
    lat1, lng1, lat2, lng2 = map(float, (lat1, lng1, lat2, lng2))

    # normalize points or ensure they are proper lat/lon, i.e., in [-90, 90] and [-180, 180]
    if normalize:
        lat1, lng1 = _normalize(lat1, lng1)
        lat2, lng2 = _normalize(lat2, lng2)
    elif check:
        _ensure_lat_lon(lat1, lng1)
        _ensure_lat_lon(lat2, lng2)

    return get_avg_earth_radius(unit) * _haversine_kernel(lat1, lng1, lat2, lng2)

[roniemartinez]

The easy solution might be to just "convert" to the coordinates to float

This is what we are currently doing. I am not familiar with numba so nothing I can do at the moment.