On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 11:47, Paul F. Dubois wrote:
>  This is what PyArray_FromDimsAndData was for, and I believe it is fairly 
>  heavily used.

That's good to know.  I was just discussing with Perry how to expand the
C-API to support this stuff.  Perhaps we don't have to.

>  Todd Miller wrote:
>  > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 08:51, Ville Hakulinen wrote:
>  > 
>  >>Dear all,
>  >>
>  >>I would like to turn a large C array allocated by a library into a
>  >>Numarray object without copying the contents. In other words I have
>  >>a given array of double precision floats and I want to get a Numarray
>  >>object, where the data pointer points to this array and no additional
>  >>memory is allocated. Naturally when the reference count of the Numarray
>  >>object gets back to zero, the object is freed, but the array itself
>  >>is left as a nuisance for the C code.
>  >>
>  >>Is there a standard way of doing this?
>  > 
>  > 
>  > No, not yet.  You're not the first person to ask for this but I'd
>  > appreciate it if you'd explain why you need it.  So far,  not having
>  > that feature is a conscious omission to keep complexity down.
>  > 
>  > Regards,
>  > Todd
>  > 
-- 
Todd Miller <jmiller@[...].edu> 



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