In my previous posting, I inquired how to change a python numeric object
in place. Several people responded that this is not possible. Perhaps I
should explain the larger problem that I am trying to solve, and then the
solution will become apparent. I have a C routine R that invokes a Python
routine S repeatedly. This Python routine S takes three arguments, two
floats and an integer. I have read the documentation explaining how R can
use the C API to construct an argument list for invoking S. The issue
that baffles me is that, as far as I can tell, each time R invokes S
again, it needs to deallocate and reallocate the three arguments. It
would seem be much more efficient if R could create the argument list once
and then modify the values inside of it for each subsequent invocation of
S.
-- Steve Vavasis
In article <jrudnvsrisf_5phxnz2dnuvz_rodn...@pdx.net>,
Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> wrote:
>If you do figurte out how to do what you want, you will put us in the
>old FORTRAN trap: People can write code that changes the value of a
>constant.
>The code:
> month = 12 # make it december
> inches_per_foot = 12
> make_previous(month)
> print ('Month is now: %s, inches_per_foot = %s' % (
> month, inches_per_foot))
>might print:
> Month is now: 11, inches_per_foot = 11
>
>--Scott David Daniels
>scott.dani...@acm.org
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