[SciPy-dev] alternate .flags interface

[Travis Oliphant]

Fernando Perez wrote:

>Perry Greenfield wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm wondering if the current flags interface couldn't be made a bit 
>>easier to use to allow mapping of dictionary keys in to attributes. For 
>>example:
>>
>>instead of arr.flags["CONTIGUOUS"]
>>
>>arr.flags.contiguous
>>
>>If using a dictionary is considered useful (e.g., for getting the whole 
>>state, it is still possible to allow arr.flags to return a dictionary 
>>derived object that can be used wherever dictionaries are accepted, and 
>>likewise, assigning to arr.flags should be able to take a dictionary of 
>>flags. Any reason we can't support this interface?
>>    
>>
>
>Mmh.  What happens when you say
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>arr.flags.update = 1
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>and then pass arr.flags to a dict-expecting method which calls
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>arr.flags.update(otherdict)
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>

I'm not sure I follow what the problem is. Is there an update flag?

First of all, arr.flags already returns a special dictionary (so that 
tests like Fortran but not contiguous are easy).

If you want to use attribute access to get and set the dictionary items, 
I don't see how that couldn't be done.

-Travis