On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Charles R Harris
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been looking into ticket #736 and playing with some things. In
> > arrayobject.c starting at line 8534 I added a check for strings.
> >
> > if (PyString_Check(op)) {
> > r = Array_FromPyScalar(op, newtype);
> > }
> > if (PySequence_Check(op)) {
> > PyObject *thiserr = NULL;
> >
> > /* necessary but not sufficient */
> > Py_INCREF(newtype);
> > r = Array_FromSequence(op, newtype, flags & FORTRAN,
> > min_depth, max_depth);
> > if (r == NULL && (thiserr=PyErr_Occurred())) {
> > if (PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(thiserr,
> > PyExc_MemoryError)) {
> > return NULL;
> > }
> >
> > I think there may be a failure to decrement the reference to newtype
> unless
> > Array_FromSequence does that (nasty side effect);
> >
> > Anyway, the added check for a string fixes the conversion problem for
> such
> > things as int32('123'). There remains a problem with array('123',
> > dtype=int32) and with array(['123','123'], dtype=int32), but I think I
> can
> > track those down. The question is, will changing the current behavior so
> > that strings get converted to numbers cause problems with other programs
> out
> > there. I suspect I also need to check that strings are converted this way
> > only when the type is explicitly given, not detected.
>
> Seems to work for me.
>
> In [5]: array([124, '123', '123'])
> Out[5]:
> array(['124', '123', '123'],
> dtype='|S4')
>
BTW, why is it '|S4', shouldn't it be '|S3' ? That's what I get when
everything is quoted.
Chuck
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