[Numpy-discussion] Access to C/C++, typemaps, pyrex...

[Travis Oliphant]

Christopher Barker wrote:

> Fernando Perez wrote:
>
>> Done, both for pyrex and swig.  I added very simple notes, feel free 
>> to add further detail as necessary:
>>
>> http://scipy.org/Cookbook/Pyrex_and_NumPy
>> http://scipy.org/Cookbook/SWIG_and_NumPy
>
>
> Thanks, this is great.
>
> Has anyone done this (for either SWIG or Pyrex) for the generic array 
> interface, rather than explicitly for the numpy types? I'd love to see 
> examples of how to write extensions that can take ANY nd-array. (I now 
> that's only NumPy, Numeric and numarray now, but I'm hopeful it will 
> become a standard)

Well, there is the __array_struct__ method that should return a C-Object 
pointer with all the information in it about the array.

To see how to use this look at the Numeric or numpy code (do a grep on 
__array_struct__ and you will find the relevant sections of code).

I noticed that the Pyrex cookbook had an example with using the generic 
interface.  

-Travis