Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky <at> gmail.com> writes: > > I did not follow numpy development for the last year or more, so I > won't qualify as "the numpy folks," but my understanding is that numpy > does exactly what Nick recommended: the viewed object owns shape and > strides just as it owns the data. The viewing object increases the > reference count of the viewed object and thus assures that data, shape > and strides don't go away prematurely.
That doesn't work if e.g. you take a slice of a memoryview object, since the shape changes in the process. See http://bugs.python.org/issue4580 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
