Right. I'm new to NumPy so I figured I'd check if there was some nifty way of
preserving the shape without storing it in the database that I hadn't
discovered yet. No worries, I'll store the shape alongside the array. Thanks
for the reply.
Ian
>________________________________
>From: Olivier Delalleau <sh...@keba.be>
>To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion@scipy.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:44 AM
>Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Reconstruct multidimensional array from buffer
>without shape
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>How could it be possible? If you only have the buffer data, there could be
>many different valid shapes associated to this data.
>
>-=- Olivier
>
>
>2011/8/19 Ian <youknowho2...@yahoo.com>
>
>Hello list,
>>
>>
>>I am storing a multidimensional array as binary in a Postgres 9.04 database.
>>For retrieval of this array from the database I thought frombuffer() was my
>>solution, however I see that this constructs a one-dimensional array. I read
>>in the documentation about the buffer parameter in the ndarray() constructor,
>>but that requires the shape of the array.
>>
>>
>>Is there a way to re-construct a multidimensional array from a buffer without
>>knowing its shape?
>>
>>
>>Thanks.
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