[Numpy-discussion] Automatic matrices

[Robert Kern]

Keith Goodman wrote:

> But are there any unintended consequences of changing from array to asanyarray?

Not by itself, no. That entails that the implementations cannot rely on any
particular behavior of the arrays. The correct(ish) approach looks something
like the following, I believe:


def foo(input):
    input_arr = asanyarray(input)
    wrapper = input_arr.__array_wrap__
    input_arr = asarray(input_arr)

    # Do stuff on input_arr to get output_arr (an ndarray).

    return wrapper(output_arr)


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Robert Kern

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