[Numpy-discussion] Name of the file associated with a memmap

[Robert Kern]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 15:52, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Brent Pedersen <bpederse at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:03, Nadav Horesh <nadavh at visionsense.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Is there a way to get the file-name given a memmap array object?
>>> >
>>> > Not at this time. This would be very useful, though, so patches are
>>> > welcome.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Robert Kern
>>> >
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>>> > though it had an underlying truth."
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>>> this sounded easy, so i gave it a shot:
>>> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1451
>>>
>>> i think that works.
>>
>> Looks OK, I applied it. Could you add some documentation?
>>
>
> And maybe the filename should be the whole path? Thoughts?

Yes, that would help. While you are looking at it, you may want to
consider recording some of the other information that is computed in
or provided to __new__, like offset.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco