[Numpy-discussion] replacing the mechanism for dispatching ufuncs

[Lluís]

Darren Dale writes:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Mark Wiebe <mwwiebe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Charles R Harris
>> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How does the ufunc get called so it doesn't get caught in an endless loop?

> [...]

>> The function being called needs to ensure this, either by extracting a raw
>> ndarray from instances of its class, or adding a 'subok = False' parameter
>> to the kwargs.

> I didn't understand, could you please expand on that or show an example?

As I understood the initial description and examples, the ufunc overload
will keep being used as long as its arguments are of classes that
declare ufunc overrides (i.e., classes with the "_numpy_ufunc_"
attribute).

Thus Mark's comment saying that you have to either transform the
arguments into raw ndarrays (either by creating new ones or passing a
view) or use the "subok = False" kwarg parameter to break a possible
overloading loop.


Lluis

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