On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <[email protected]>wrote:
> PEP 3118 [1] allows exposing multi-dimensional data that is organized as > array of pointers. It appears, however that NumPy cannot consume such > memory views. > > Looking at _array_from_buffer_3118() function [2], I don't see any attempt > to process suboffsets. The documentation [3] is also silent on this issue. > > What is the status of indirect memory views/buffers support in NumPy? > There is indeed no support in NumPy for this. Unfortunately, fixing this would be a significant amount of work, as buffer management is not really abstracted in NumPy ATM. David > > > [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3118/ > [2] > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/4050ac73af79ae8cc513648ff02e9a22041501c4/numpy/core/src/multiarray/ctors.c#L1253 > [3] http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.interface.html > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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