You can also directly build a numpy array from a pointer with the numpy
API.
And I recommend Cython as an interface to make these things easy.
This does mean you’d need to have the numpy lib at build time, .which may
be a downside.
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On Jul 16, 2019, at 5:48 AM, Derek Homeier <
de...@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
On 16 Jul 2019, at 9:30 am, Omry Levy <omryl...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a question, regarding conversion of C (unsigned char *) buffer to a
two dimensional numpy array
this is what i am doing:
1) I get a C network buffer of unsigned char * let's call it the source
buffer
the size of the source buffer is:
W * H * 2 bytes
2) I am using PyByteArray_FromStringAndSize() to convert the source buffer
(a C unsigned char *) to python bytes array.
a = PyByteArray_FromStringAndSize(source buffer, W * H * 2)
3) i am using numpy.frombuffer to convert the python bytes array to a 1
dimensional numpy array of size W *H *2 bytes
b = numpy.frombuffer(a, dtype = np.uint8)
4) i am creating a 2 dimensional numpy array from (3) when each element in
that array is made of 2 bytes from the python bytes array
c = b.view(np.uint16).reshape((H, W))
Is there a way to optimize this some how ?
Can you suggest a faster and better solution ?
The PyByteArray conversion seems unnecessary - if you can access your input
as a buffer,
calling np.frombuffer on it directly with the correct dtype should work
just as well, and you
can reshape it on the fly:
c = np.frombuffer(source_buffer, dtype=np.uint16, [count=W*H]).reshape((H,
W))
The optional ‘count’ argument would only be required if you cannot simply
read the buffer
to its end.
HTH,
Derek
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