[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] C API questions

[Konrad Hinsen]

> My usual solution in this case is to copy data frequently.  I assume that
> you want to modify the array x in-place here?  My own approach in these
> situation has been to change my C API to something like:

Yes, the data does get modified, but even without modification I wouldn't
think of copying, because the arrays can be very large (meaning a few MB,
and there are several of them around).

But I just got another idea: if before returning I set the array's
shape to something corresponding to a zero length array, then
there should be no way to access its memory area, right? Ignoring
of course buggy C extensions, which I don't care about. To be
even more safe, I could change the data pointer to point to some
small statically allocated area. Or am I missing something?

Konrad.
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