Providing array interface from SWIG-wrapped C struct

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 10/12/06, Michele Vallisneri <vallis at vallis.org> wrote:
> Does anybody here have experience about offering the array interface
> from a SWIG-wrapped C struct?

I have.

> I have tried the following, borrowing code from numpy's arrayobject.c:
>
> %extend real_vec_t {
>    PyObject *__array_struct__() {
>      /* From numpy/arrayobject.c/array_struct_get */

You are extending real_vec_t with a new METHOD, but what numpy
requests is an ATTRIBUTE. So, numpy simply queries your vec like:

arrstr = vec.__array_struct__

and not with a method call like this

arrstr = vec.__array_struct__()


So here is what I would do (can fail with some SWIG optimizations)

%extend Vec {

PyObject* __array_struct__ () { /* ...  */ }

  %pythoncode {
  __array_struct__ = property(__array_struct__,
                                                 doc='Array protocol')
  }

}

Hope you got the idea.

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