Subclassing Numpy Arrays?

David M. Cooke cookedm+news at physics.mcmaster.ca
Fri Nov 22 13:51:14 EST 2002


At some point, mclin at ctgi.com (Jon McLin) wrote:

> I have an application wherein I need to subclass Numpy arrays.  This
> does not appear doable, at least directly.  I can obviously create my
> own python wrapper class around arrays to enable subclassing, but this
> seems like a lot of work. especially given the on-going type/class
> unification.  Can anyone provide insight into the likelihood and
> timeframe for subclassable array types in Numpy, or point me in a
> productive direction?

You should take a look at numarray, which is slated to be the
successor to Numpy.
http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/index.html

What are you doing that requires subclassing?

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