Providing array interface from SWIG-wrapped C struct

[vallis.35530053 at bloglines.com]

Wonderful, it works, thanks!



Michele



--- Discussion of Numerical Python
<numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

On 10/12/06, Michele Vallisneri
<vallis at vallis.org> wrote:

> > Does anybody here have experience about offering
the array interface

> > from a SWIG-wrapped C struct?

> 

> I have.

> 

> > I have tried the following, borrowing code from numpy's arrayobject.c:

> >

> > %extend real_vec_t {

> >    PyObject *__array_struct__() {

> >
     /* From numpy/arrayobject.c/array_struct_get */

> 

> You are extending
real_vec_t with a new METHOD, but what numpy

> requests is an ATTRIBUTE.
So, numpy simply queries your vec like:

> 

> arrstr = vec.__array_struct__

> 

> and not with a method call like this

> 

> arrstr = vec.__array_struct__()

> 

> 

> So here is what I would do (can fail with some SWIG optimizations)

> 

> %extend Vec {

> 

> PyObject* __array_struct__ () { /* ...  */ }

> 

>   %pythoncode {

>   __array_struct__ = property(__array_struct__,

>                                                  doc='Array protocol')

>   }

> 

> }

> 

> Hope you got the idea.

> 

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