[Numpy-discussion] isfortran compatibility in numpy 1.10.

[Sebastian Berg]

I bet it has all been said already, but to note just in case. In numpy itself we use it mostly to determine the memory order of the *output* and not for safty purpose. That is the macro of course and I think yelling people to use flags.fnc in python is better.
 
- Sebastian


On Mon Nov 2 08:52:01 2015 GMT+0330, Sturla Molden wrote:
> Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >    1. Return `a.flags.f_contiguous`. This differs for 1-D arrays, but is
> >    most consistent with the name isfortran.
> 
> If the idea is to determine if an array can safely be passed to Fortran,
> this is the correct one.
> 
> >    2. Return `a.flags.f_contiguous and a.ndim > 1`, which would be backward
> >    compatible.
> 
> This one is just wrong.
> 
> A compromize might be to raise an exception in the case of a.ndim<2. 
> 
> Sturla
> 
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