[Numpy-discussion] documentation suggestion
Pauli Virtanen
pav at iki.fi
Mon Apr 13 13:17:26 EDT 2009
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:32:31 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
[clip]
> Done, but can someone check that what I wrote is accurate? I wrote that
> changes to the ndarray will change the underlying buffer object. But,
> the buffer protocol allows for read-only buffers. Not sure what ndarray
> would do if you tried to write in that case.
For read-only buffers, the new array will not be writeable:
>>> x="abcde"
>>> z=np.ndarray((5,), buffer=x, dtype='1S')
>>> z[0] = 'x'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
RuntimeError: array is not writeable
However, you can override this, and misusing it potentially leads to
nasty things:
>>> x="abcde"
>>> y="abcde"
>>> z=np.ndarray((5,), buffer=x, dtype='1S')
>>> z.flags.writeable = True
>>> z[0] = 'x'
>>> x
'xbcde'
>>> y
'xbcde'
>>> hash(x)
-1332677140
>>> hash("abcde")
-1332677140
Hashing breaks, and the assumed immutability of strings causes nonlocal
effects!
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However, for some reason, I don't see your contribution in the change
list:
http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/changes/
Can you check if the change you made went through? What page did you edit?
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Pauli Virtanen
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