Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >> I'd like some advice for what way people feel would be the best for >> supporting complex datatypes in NumPy in Cython; as well as ask in what >> way it is likely that NumPy will make use of PEP 3118. >> >> It seems like NumPy defines its complex data to be a struct of two >> doubles, for instance: >> >> typedef struct { double real, imag; } npy_cdouble; >> >> According to PEP 3118 [1], it would be natural to export this as "dd" >> (record of two doubles) rather than "Zd" (complex double), when >> exporting ndarrays through a buffer interface. Right? >> > No, it is more natural to use Zd because then you know you are dealing > with complex numbers and not just two separate floats.
I guess my confusion comes from assuming the wrong thing about what "complex double" refers to in the PEP; since that's the only reference I found to the concept in the PEP I assumed it corresponded to the C99 float. Can I assume then that Zd means that the data always has the form of npy_cdouble and friends? (I guess this might seem "obvious", but as you see I've already had one wrong guess, and I can't seem to find it defined anywhere...) -- Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion