[Numpy-discussion] Re: take for character arrays?

[Todd Miller]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:17, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Todd Miller wrote:
> 
> > Try this for a workaround:
> >
> > s.swapaxes(0,1)
> > s = s.copy()
> > r = numarray.take(s, (1,2))
> > r.swapaxes(0,1)
> 
> I was trying
> 
> In [50]: ts = numarray.transpose(s)
> 
> In [51]: numarray.take(ts,(1,2),axis=0)
> ...
> ValueError: Invalid destination array: partial indices require
> contiguous non-byteswapped destination
> 
> In [52]: tscopy = numarray.transpose(s).copy()
> 
> In [53]: numarray.take(tscopy,(1,2),axis=0)
> Out[53]:
> CharArray([['b', 'e', 'h'],
>            ['c', 'f', 'i']])
> 
> Is this the same or a related bug? 

Same bug.  Making a copy of the transposed array ensures that it (the
copy) is contiguous.

Regards,
Todd

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Todd Miller <jmiller at stsci.edu>