[Numpy-discussion] A little help please?

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
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>> Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
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>> The code for this is a bit hard to understand.  It does appear that it only
>> searches for a conversion on the 2nd argument.  I don't think that's
>> desirable behavior.
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>> What I'm wondering is, this works fine for builtin types.  What is different
>> in the handling of builtin types?
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> 3) For user-defined types the 1d loops (functions) for a particular 
> user-defined type are stored in a linked-list that itself is stored in a 
> Python dictionary (as a C-object) attached to the ufunc and keyed by the 
> user-defined type (of the first argument).
>
> Thus, what is missing is code to search all the linked lists in all the 
> entries of all the user-defined types on input (only the linked-list 
> keyed by the first user-defined type is searched at the moment).    This 
> would allow similar behavior to the built-in types (but a bit more 
> expensive searching).
>   
This code is now in place in current SVN.  Could you re-try your example 
with the current code-base to see if it is fixed.

Thanks,

-Travis