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-rw-r--r--numpy/core/_internal.py6
-rw-r--r--numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/_internal.py b/numpy/core/_internal.py
index 92ab0c8b0..fbe580dee 100644
--- a/numpy/core/_internal.py
+++ b/numpy/core/_internal.py
@@ -295,7 +295,11 @@ def _index_fields(ary, fields):
view_dtype = {'names':names, 'formats':formats, 'offsets':offsets, 'itemsize':dt.itemsize}
view = ary.view(dtype=view_dtype)
- return view.copy()
+ # Return a copy for now until behavior is fully deprecated
+ # in favor of returning view
+ copy_dtype = {'names':view_dtype['names'], 'formats':view_dtype['formats']}
+ from numpy import array
+ return array(view, dtype=copy_dtype, copy=True)
# Given a string containing a PEP 3118 format specifier,
# construct a Numpy dtype
diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py
index b9fd3ad86..118f221ae 100644
--- a/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py
+++ b/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py
@@ -1956,6 +1956,11 @@ class TestRecord(TestCase):
assert_equal(b[['f1','f2']][0].tolist(), (2, 3))
assert_equal(b[['f2','f1']][0].tolist(), (3, 2))
assert_equal(b[['f1','f3']][0].tolist(), (2, (1,)))
+ # view of subfield view/copy
+ assert_equal(b[['f1','f2']][0].view(('i4',2)).tolist(), (2, 3))
+ assert_equal(b[['f2','f1']][0].view(('i4',2)).tolist(), (3, 2))
+ view_dtype=[('f1', 'i4'),('f3', [('', 'i4')])]
+ assert_equal(b[['f1','f3']][0].view(view_dtype).tolist(), (2, (1,)))
# non-ascii unicode field indexing is well behaved
if not is_py3:
raise SkipTest('non ascii unicode field indexing skipped; '