As str objects are supposed to be immutable, I think anything "official" that makes a string from a numpy array is supposed to copy the data. But I think you can use ctypes to wrap a pointer and a length as a python string. Zach On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Francesc Alted wrote:

Hi,

Anybody knows a way to get a str object (bytes for Python >= 2.6) out of a buffer object (i.e. the .data attribute of ndarrays) without copying data?

I need this for avoid creating a new function that deals with buffer objects (instead of reusing the one for str/byte objects that I already have). So, a matter of laziness :-)

Thanks,

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