[SciPy-user] weave and numpy

[Robert Kern]

Sebastian Haase wrote:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 17:50, Sebastian Haase wrote:
>> Hi,
>> if I pass a numpy array 'arr' as argument
>> a) how does the C code get arr.ndim ?
>> b) how does the C code get arr.shape[0],... ?
>> c) if the C code changes elements of arr, are those changes *on the
>> original data* ?

Yes.

> In other words, is weave.inline making a copy of arr ?

No.

>> I searched through
>> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/browser/trunk/Lib/weave/doc/tutorial.
>> html?format=raw but did not find a definite answer. From
>> the 'array3d.py' example in weave in looks like Narr would contain the
>> shape !?

Yes. Specifically:

arr_array is the actual PyArrayObject* corresponding to the Python object.

Narr = arr_array->dimensions
Sarr = arr_array->strides
Darr = arr_array->nd
arr = arr_array->data

> Oh, and I forgot: How about non-contiguous arrays !?

Passed straight on through, just like contiguous arrays.

> In the case that these are handled - does that slow things down for proper 
> aligned arrays,  too !?

You will have to take the strides into account in your code.

-- 
Robert Kern

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