[Numpy-discussion] Array Protocol change for Python 2.6 (original) (raw)

Travis Oliphant oliphant at ee.byu.edu
Fri Jun 9 13:50:00 EDT 2006


Albert Strasheim wrote:

Hello all

-----Original Message----- From: numpy-discussion-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:numpy-_ _discussion-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Travis Oliphant Sent: 08 June 2006 22:27 To: numpy-discussion Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Array Protocol change for Python 2.6 ... I would like to eliminate all the other array protocol attributes before NumPy 1.0 (and re-label those such as arraydata that are useful in other contexts --- like ctypes).

Just out of curiosity: In [1]: x = N.array([]) In [2]: x.arraydata Out[2]: ('0x01C23EE0', False) Is there a reason why the arraydata tuple stores the address as a hex string? I would guess that this representation of the address isn't the most useful one for most applications.

I suppose we could have stored it as a Python Long integer. But, storing it as a string was probably inspired by SWIG.

-Travis



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