On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Pierre Haessig <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 28/10/2013 13:40, Robert Kern a écrit : > > > What I didn't find (by quick googling) is how to access the original > > > array. Is it possible to access it (with Python code) ? > > > > a.base > Thanks! Is there a specific paragraph I missed in the user guide ? > > I had googled "numpy access original array" and first result is > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/basics.indexing.html > In this document, it is mentionned several time that slicing yields > "views of the original data", but the .base attribute is not mentionned. > Should it be or is it out-of-scope of the Indexing guide ?
I think it's out-of-scope for "Numpy basics", certainly. It's mostly an implementation detail. There isn't much that you can usefully do with it as a user. http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.ndarray.base.html -- Robert Kern
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