On 18.02.2005, at 23:06, Travis Oliphant wrote:
Let me see if i understand you here. Since the type of the array is bascially handled by the PyArray_Descr* structure. Are you suggesting turning that into a full-fledged PythonObject with new type? I had thought of this before since it's basically calling for us to do something like that. Or do you have something else in mind?
I was thinking of the scalar types than of the arrays. What I am proposing is to have a Int16, Int32, UInt 16 etc. as Python scalar types (though not built-in types) and use the type objects to create arrays and to identify the type of array elements. Those types would be part of a type hierarchy for type testing. One could then either have a single array type that stores the type object for the elements internally, or have different Python types for every kind of array (i.e. Int16Array, Int32Array). I don't see any important difference there, so I have no clear opinion on this. Konrad. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Konrad Hinsen Laboratoire Leon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France Tel.: +33-1 69 08 79 25 Fax: +33-1 69 08 82 61 E-Mail: khinsen@cea.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------