Dependence on old Numpy version

[tjk584]

BUG

When installing pydarnio borealis_v0.7 branch using pip, the latest version of numpy is installed (v2.0). However, parts of the code are dependent on deprecated types within numpy, and don't work with v2.0 of numpy.

Priority

• Minor - typo, incorrect naming, fails on specific uncommon situation
• Major - misrepresentation of data, failure in a common situation
• Urgent - failure in usage, large misrepresentation

Example of the bug

When using borealis_restructure.py within the borealis_v0.7 branch (with numpy v2.0 installed), the following error is thrown:

  File "/home/radar/pyDARNio/pydarnio/borealis/borealis_formats.py", line 206, in all_array_types
    "antenna_arrays_order": np.unicode_,
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/radar/pydarnio-env/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 397, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(
AttributeError: `np.unicode_` was removed in the NumPy 2.0 release. Use `np.str_` instead.

Attempts

Manually installing numpy version older than v2.0 fixes the problem.

Potential Solution(s)

• Specify the version of numpy that pip installs when installing pydarnio via pip
• Make pydarnio work with the latest version of numpy

[carleyjmartin]

This is fixed in the release Rem has made.

Also #71

[RemingtonRohel]

If you install the release branch release/v1.3 and it works for you, please leave a review on that PR