[Numpy-discussion] Memory leak with matrices?

[David Paul Reichert]

Hi,

I've got two issues:

First, the following seems to cause a memory leak,
using numpy 1.3.0:

a = matrix(ones(1))

while True:
    a += 0


This only seems to happen when a is a matrix rather
than an array, and when the short hand '+=' is used.

Second, I'm not sure whether that's a bug or whether
I just don't understand what's going on, but when a is a column
array, (e.g. a = ones((10, 1))), then

a -= a[0,:]

only subtracts from a[0, 0], whereas not using the short hand
or using something else than a on the righthand side seems
to subtract from all rows as expected.

Thanks a lot,

David

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