Deepcopying numeric array

[Stuart Reynolds]

Does anyone know why the Numeric arrays can't be deepcopied? Is it just
an omission?

Cheers

Stuart


>>> from Numeric import *
>>> a = array([1,2,3])
>>> a
array([1, 2, 3])


>>> from copy import *
>>> deepcopy(a)
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/bham/ums/common/pd/packages/Python/lib/python1.5/copy.py", line
147, in deepcopy
    raise error, \
copy.error: un-deep-copyable object of type <type 'array'>
>>>