"PB" == Paul Barrett <Barrett@stsci.edu> writes:
PB> we entirely agree with the above definitions of _view_ and PB> _copy_. But you haven't told us what object associates your PB> Array and ArrayView to make a usable array that can be sliced, PB> diced, and Julian fried. Hm. You know, I am not so deep into the python internals. I am a fairly high-level programmer. Not a CS type, but a chemist.... There might be much of implementation detail that escapes me. But I'm just trying to keep things beautiful (as in Erich Gamma et.al.) I thought an ArrayView would have a pointer to the data array. Like the either like the .data attribute in the Numeric 1 API, or as a python object pointer. PB> My impression of your slice method would be: PB> slice(Array, ArrayView, slice expression) If ArrayView.HasA(Array), that would not be required. Regards, Rob Hooft. -- ===== rob@hooft.net http://www.hooft.net/people/rob/ ===== ===== R&D, Nonius BV, Delft http://www.nonius.nl/ ===== ===== PGPid 0xFA19277D ========================== Use Linux! =========