[Numpy-discussion] Problems creating a numarray of type PyArray_OBJECT

[Todd Miller]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:34, Leo Breebaart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using the numarray C API, I am trying to create an array
> containing Python strings from an existing C (char **) array.
> 
> In Numeric 23.1, the following code fragment works fine:
> 
>    PyObject *pdata = NULL;
>        // num_elements has been defined earlier
>    PyStringObject **strarray = malloc(num_elements * sizeof(PyStringObject *));
>    if (strarray != NULL)
>    {
>        int e;
>        for (e = 0; e < num_elements; e++)
>        {
>            strarray[e] = (PyStringObject *) PyString_FromString(((char **)data)[e]);
>        }
>        
>           // num_dims and the dim array have been defined earlier
>        pdata = PyArray_FromDimsAndData(num_dims, dim, PyArray_OBJECT, 
>                                        (char *)strarray);
>    }
> 
> In numarray 0.7, the same code yields the runtime error:
> 
>    libnumarray.error: Type object lookup returned NULL for type 14
> 
> in the PyArray_FromDimsAndData() call.
> 
> Using the current numarray CVS head instead of the 0.7 release
> makes no difference.
> 
> Is there somebody who knows what is going or what I am doing
> wrong?

Yes and no.   You're in an area that numarray supports differently than
Numeric.  numarray's support for character arrays is in the Python
numarray.strings module.  There's no direct support for using it from
C.    

> 
> Many thanks in advance,

You're welcome,

Todd

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Todd Miller <jmiller at stsci.edu>