[SciPy-User] scipy.linalg.solve()'s overwrite option does not work

[braingateway]

josef.pktd at gmail.com :
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:13 PM, braingateway <braingateway at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> David Warde-Farley:
>>     
>>> On 2010-11-05, at 9:21 PM, braingateway wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> I believe the overwrite option is used for reduce memory usage. But I
>>>> did following test, and find out it does not work at all. Maybe I
>>>> misunderstood the purpose of overwrite option. If anybody could explain
>>>> this, I shall highly appreciate your help.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> First of all, this is a SciPy issue, so please don't crosspost to NumPy-discussion.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>>>>> a=npy.random.randn(20,20)
>>>>>>> x=npy.random.randn(20,4)
>>>>>>> a=npy.matrix(a)
>>>>>>> x=npy.matrix(x)
>>>>>>> b=a*x
>>>>>>> import scipy.linalg as sla
>>>>>>> a0=npy.matrix(a)
>>>>>>> a is a0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>> False
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>>> b0=npy.matrix(b)
>>>>>>> b is b0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>> False
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You shouldn't use 'is' to compare arrays unless you mean to compare them by object identity. Use all(b == b0) to compare by value.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Thanks for reply, but I have to say u did not understand my post at all.
>> I did this 'is' comparison on purpose, because I wanna know if the
>> overwrite flag is work or not.
>> See following example:
>>  >>> a=numpy.matrix([0,0,1])
>>  >>> a
>> matrix([[0, 0, 1]])
>>  >>> a0=a
>>  >>> a0 is a
>> True
>> This means a0 and a is actually point to a same object. Then a0 act
>> similar to the C pointer of a.
>> I compared a0/b0 and a/b by 'is' first to show I did create a new object
>> from the original matrix, so the following (a0==a).all() comparison can
>> actually prove the values inside the a and b were not overwritten.
>>     
>
> even if  "a0 is not a" they can still share the same memory:
>
>
>   
Thanks a lot, but I checked again, there is no sharing on memory.
>>>> aa = np.ones(5)
>>>> bb = aa[:,None]
>>>> aa is bb
>>>>         
> False
>   
>>>> bb[0] = 10
>>>> aa
>>>>         
> array([ 10.,   1.,   1.,   1.,   1.])
>   
>>>> (aa == bb.ravel()).all()
>>>>         
> True
>
> When I check a variation on your example, I have `a` overwritten but
> not `b`.  But the docstring makes only a weak statement, allowing that
> it can be overwritten, doesn't necessarily mean it will be overwritten
> in every case.
>
>
> Josef
>   
Thanks very much for trying it. Also good to know, the 'overwrite flag' 
is actually refer to modify the input matrixs. Would you mind tell me 
exactly how did u make it overwritten? I get a for-loop to try this 
about 50 times (attached script), none of them got overwritten. 
Probably, it depends on size? so I increased it to 200x200 or even 
2000x2000, still no any effect. Would you please show me the variation 
in which you could actually have (a==a0).all() return 'False'? I also 
tried arrays instead of matrix (attached script), the result is the same.

Best Regards,
LittleBigBrain
>
>   
>> Sincerely,
>> LittleBigBrain
>>     
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