[Numpy-discussion] array, asarray as contiguous and friends
Travis Oliphant
oliphant at ee.byu.edu
Fri Mar 24 11:12:00 EST 2006
Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>On 3/24/06, Tim Hochberg <tim.hochberg at cox.net> wrote:
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>>.... For
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>example (and just for
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>>example, I make no great claims for either this name or interface):
>> a = array_from_data(a_buffer_object, dtype, dims, strides)
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>This looks very similar to the current ndarray "new" constructor:
>
> | ndarray.__new__(subtype, shape=, dtype=int_, buffer=None,
> | offset=0, strides=None, fortran=False)
> |
> | There are two modes of creating an array using __new__:
> | 1) If buffer is None, then only shape, dtype, and fortran
> | are used
> | 2) If buffer is an object exporting the buffer interface, then
> | all keywords are interpreted.
> | The dtype parameter can be any object that can be interpreted
> | as a numpy.dtype object.
>
>(see pydoc numpy.ndarray)
>
>I would not mind to leave array() unchanged and move discussion to
>streamlining ndarray.__new__ . For example, some time ago I suggested
>that strides should be interpreted even if buffer=None.
>
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>
Here I'm much more happy about removing the fortran flag and just using
the strides parameter as Sasha suggests in this routine, so please
streamline as much as possible.
-Travis
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