On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Travis Oliphant <
travis@continuum.io> wrote:
>
> In
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/350/files ,
>
> javius provides a patch to allow field extraction from a structured array to
> return a view instead of a copy. Generally, this is consistent with the
> desire to have NumPy return views whenever it can. The same idea underlies
> the change to the diagonal method.
>
> Suppose 'myarr' is a structured array with fields ['lat', 'long', 'meas1',
> 'meas2', 'meas3', 'meas4'].
>
> Currently,
>
> myarr[['lat', 'long', 'mesa3']] will return a copy of the data in the
> underlying array. The proposal is to have this return a view, but do it in
> a two-stage approach so that a first version returns a copy with the
> WARN_ON_WRITE flag set introduced in NumPy 1.7. A later version will
> remove the flag (and the copy).
>
> What are thoughts on this proposal and which version of NumPy it should go
> in?
>
> -Travis
>
>