On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:54, Robert Kern wrote:

Todd Miller wrote:

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numarray has a concept of "misbehaved arrays", i.e. arrays in the binary format of another platform and therefore byte-swapped, or arrays spread across records and therefore possibly noncontiguous or misaligned. I think these buffers are likely unusable so providing access to them is a mistake. Misbehaved arrays probably don't arise in the work of most users, but they are a possibility that has to be accounted for.

For cases of misbehaved arrays, I think raising a ValueError exception is necessary. How does that sound?

For the byteswapped case, could I still get a buffer object around the raw data by using _data? If so, I vote +1.

Sure. Alternately, you could make a copy of the array which will automatically be well behaved and therefore usable in C. Regards, Todd