copy a numpy array

[Francesco Guerrieri]

On Jan 8, 2008 4:32 PM, jimgardener <jimgardener at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> (i posted this to numpy discussion grp couple of days back ..but it
> fails to appear..)since it is needed for my work i would appreciate if
> anyone can help me with this question
>
>
> i have two ndarrays of 1000 elements each and want to copy all
> elements from srcarray to destarray
>
> srcarray=numpy.array(  [3973334.8381791776,........,382999.6748692277] )
>
> arrsize=1000
> destarray=zeros(arrsize)
>
> i copied all items from src to dest by using
> destarray[0:arrsize]=srcarray[0:arrsize]
>
> i don't know if this is the right way to do the copying.
> is there a better(efficient?) way ?
> jim


If you want the array to share the data, just use
destarray = numpy.array(srcarray)

Otherwise you can set the copy flag to False:

destarray = numpy.array(srcarray,copy=False)

 bye,
Francesco