[Numpy-discussion] Array views

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 03/29/2011 09:35 AM, Pearu Peterson wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Pearu Peterson 
> <pearu.peterson at gmail.com <mailto:pearu.peterson at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no
>     <mailto:sturla at molden.no>> wrote:
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>         Den 28.03.2011 19:12, skrev Pearu Peterson:
>         >
>         > FYI, f2py in numpy 1.6.x supports also assumed shape arrays.
>
>         How did you do that? Chasm-interop, C bindings from F03, or
>         marshalling
>         through explicit-shape?
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>     The latter.
>      Basically, if you have
>
>     subroutine foo(a)
>     real a(:)
>     end
>
>     then f2py automatically creates a wrapper subroutine
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>     subroutine wrapfoo(a, n)
>     real a(n)
>     integer n
>     !f2py intent(in) :: a
>     !f2py intent(hide) :: n = shape(a,0)
>     interface
>     subroutine foo(a)
>     real a(:)
>     end
>     end interface
>     call foo(a)
>     end
>
>     that can be wrapped with f2py in ordinary way.
>
>         Can f2py pass strided memory from NumPy to Fortran?
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>
>     No. I haven't thought about it.
>
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> Now, after little bit of thinking and testing, I think supporting 
> strided arrays in f2py
> is easily doable. For the example above, f2py just must generate the 
> following wrapper subroutine
>
> subroutine wrapfoo(a, stride, n)
> real a(n)
> integer n, stride
> !f2py intent(in) :: a
> !f2py intent(hide) :: n = shape(a,0)
> !f2py intent(hide) :: stride = getstrideof(a)
> interface
> subroutine foo(a)
> real a(:)
> end
> end interface
> call foo(a(1:stride:n))
> end

I think it should be a(1:n*stride:stride) or something.

Dag Sverre
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