[Numpy-discussion] concatenate and non-contiguous arrays?

[Christopher Barker]

Hi all,

I just noticed that np.concatenate does not necessarily produce 
contiguous arrays.

I has figured that it was making a copy, so would produce a C-contiguous 
array, but not so:

In [88]: a = np.arange(60).reshape((4,5,3))

In [89]: b = np.concatenate((a, a[:, -1:, :]), axis=1)

In [90]: b.flags
Out[90]:
   C_CONTIGUOUS : False
   F_CONTIGUOUS : False
   OWNDATA : False
   WRITEABLE : True
   ALIGNED : True
   UPDATEIFCOPY : False

I'm also not sure why OWNDATA is false  is it sharing data with 
somethign else? It doesn't look like it is with a.

I'll toss a ascontiguous() in my code to take care of this, but I'd like 
to understand it.

Explanation?

-Chris


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