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\begin_layout Part
C-API
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\begin_layout Chapter
New Python Types and C-Structures
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\begin_layout Quotation
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
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\begin_layout Right Address
---
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William Feather, Sr.
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\begin_layout Quotation
The truth is out there.
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\begin_layout Right Address
---Chris Carter, The X Files
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\begin_layout Standard
NumPy provides a C-API to enable users to extend the system and get access
 to the array object for use in other routines.
 The best way to truly understand the C-API is to read the source code.
 If you are unfamiliar with (C) source code, however, this can be a daunting
 experience at first.
 Be assured that the task becomes easier with practice, and you may be surprised
 at how simple the C-code can be to understand.
 Even if you don't think you can write C-code from scratch, it is much easier
 to understand and modify already-written source code then create it 
\emph on
de novo
\emph default
.
 
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\begin_layout Standard
Python extensions are especially straightforward to understand because they
 all have a very similar structure.
 Admittedly, NumPy is not a trivial extension to Python, and may take a
 little more snooping to grasp.
 This is especially true because of the code-generation techniques, which
 simplify maintenance of very similar code, but can make the code a little
 less readable to beginners.
 Still, with a little persistence, the code can be opened to your understanding.
 It is my hope, that this guide to the C-API can assist in the process of
 becoming familiar with the compiled-level work that can be done with NumPy
 in order to squeeze that last bit of necessary speed out of your code.
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\begin_layout Standard
Several new types are defined in the C-code.
 Most of these are accessible from Python, but a few are not exposed due
 to their limited use.
 Every new Python type has an associated PyObject * with an internal structure
 that includes a pointer to a 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
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method table
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 that defines how the new object behaves in Python.
 When you receive a Python object into C code, you always get a pointer
 to a 
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PyObject
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 structure.
 Because a 
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PyObject
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 structure is very generic and defines only 
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PyObject_HEAD
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, by itself it is not very interesting.
 However, different objects contain more details after the 
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PyObject_HEAD
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 (but you have to cast to the correct type to access them --- or use accessor
 functions or macros).
 
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\begin_layout Section
New Python Types Defined
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\begin_layout Standard
Python types are the functional equivalent in C of classes in Python.
 By constructing a new Python type you make available a new object for Python.
 The ndarray object is an example of a new type defined in C.
 New types are defined in C by two basic steps:
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\begin_layout Enumerate
creating a C-structure (usually named Py<Name>Object) that is binary-compatible
 with the 
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PyObject
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r object;
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populating the 
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PyTypeObject
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PyObject
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 for the type.
 
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Instead of special method names which define behavior for Python classes,
 there are 
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function tables
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 which point to functions that implement the desired results.
 Since Python 2.2, the PyTypeObject itself has become dynamic which allows
 C types that can be 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

sub-typed
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 from other C-types in C, and sub-classed in Python.
 The children types inherit the attributes and methods from their parent(s).
 
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There are two major new types: the ndarray (
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 Additional types play a supportive role: the 
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 when getting the flat attribute).
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 It handles iteration and broadcasting over a collection of nested sequences.
 Also, the 
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 is the data-type-descriptor type whose instances describe the data.
 Finally, there are 21 new scalar-array types which are new Python scalars
 corresponding to each of the fundamental data types available for arrays.
 An additional 10 other types are place holders that allow the array scalars
 to fit into a hierarchy of actual Python types.
 
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PyArray_Type 
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The Python type of the ndarray is 
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The 
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 All instances of an ndarray (and its subclasses) will have this structure.
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data A pointer to the first element of the array.
 This pointer can (and normally should) be recast to the data type of the
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kind A character code indicating the kind of array (using the array interface
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\begin_layout Description
NPY_NEEDS_INIT Indicates memory for this data-type must be initialized (set
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NPY_USE_GETITEM On array access use the 
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elsize For data types that are always the same size (such as long), this
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 For flexible data types where different arrays can have a different elementsize
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 In other-words, each element that this descriptor describes is actually
 an array of some other base descriptor.
 This is most useful as the data-type descriptor for a field in another
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 The fields member should be 
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 if this is non-
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 (the fields member of the base descriptor can be non-
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 A field is a named sub-region of that total, fixed-length collection.
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 These functions are not the same thing as the universal functions (ufuncs)
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\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 An array of function pointers to cast from the current type to all of the
 other builtin types.
 Each function casts a contiguous, aligned, and notswapped buffer pointed
 at by 
\emph on
from
\emph default
 to a contiguous, aligned, and notswapped buffer pointed at by 
\emph on
to
\emph default
 The number of items to cast is given by 
\emph on
n
\emph default
, and the arguments 
\emph on
fromarr
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
toarr
\emph default
 are interpreted as PyArrayObjects for flexible arrays to get itemsize informati
on.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
getitem (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that returns a standard Python object from a single
 element of the array object 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 pointed to by 
\emph on
data
\emph default
.
 This function must be able to deal with 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

misbehaved
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 (misaligned and/or swapped) arrays correctly.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
setitem (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 item, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that sets the Python object 
\emph on
item
\emph default
 into the array, 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
, at the position pointed to by 
\emph on
data
\emph default
.
 This function deals with 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

misbehaved
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 arrays.
 If successful, a zero is returned, otherwise, a negative one is returned
 (and a Python error set).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
copyswapn (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 dest, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 dstride, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 src, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 sstride, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 n, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 swap, void *arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
copyswap (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 dest, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 src, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 swap, void *arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 These members are both pointers to functions to copy data from 
\emph on
src
\emph default
 to 
\emph on
dest
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
swap
\emph default
 if indicated.
 The value of arr is only used for flexible (
\family typewriter
NPY_STRING
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UNICODE
\family default
, and 
\family typewriter
NPY_VOID
\family default
) arrays (and is obtained from 
\family typewriter
arr->descr->elsize
\family default
).
 The second function copies a single value, while the first loops over n
 values with the provided strides.
 These functions can deal with misbehaved 
\emph on
src
\emph default
 data.
 If 
\emph on
src
\emph default
 is NULL then no copy is performed.
 If 
\emph on
swap
\emph default
 is 0, then no byteswapping occurs.
 It is assumed that 
\emph on
dest
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
src
\emph default
 do not overlap.
 If they overlap, then use 
\family typewriter
memmove
\family default
(...) first followed by 
\family typewriter
copyswap(n)
\family default
 with NULL valued 
\family typewriter
src
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
compare (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
const void*
\family default
 d1, 
\family typewriter
const void*
\family default
 d2, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that compares two elements of the array, 
\family typewriter
arr
\family default
, pointed to by 
\family typewriter
d1
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
d2
\family default
.
 This function requires behaved arrays.
 The return value is 1 if *
\family typewriter
d1
\family default
 > *
\family typewriter
d2
\family default
, 0 if *
\family typewriter
d1
\family default
 == *
\family typewriter
d2
\family default
, and -1 if *
\family typewriter
d1
\family default
 < *
\family typewriter
d2
\family default
.
 The array object arr is used to retrieve itemsize and field information
 for flexible arrays.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
argmax (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 n, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 max_ind, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that retrieves the index of the largest of 
\family typewriter
n
\family default
 elements in 
\family typewriter
arr
\family default
 beginning at the element pointed to by 
\family typewriter
data
\family default
.
 This function requires that the memory segment be contiguous and behaved.
 The return value is always 0.
 The index of the largest element is returned in 
\family typewriter
max_ind
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
dotfunc (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 ip1, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 is1, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 ip2, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 is2, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 n, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that multiplies two 
\family typewriter
n
\family default
-length sequences together, adds them, and places the result in element
 pointed to by 
\family typewriter
op
\family default
 of 
\family typewriter
arr
\family default
.
 The start of the two sequences are pointed to by 
\family typewriter
ip1
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
ip2
\family default
.
 To get to the next element in each sequence requires a jump of 
\family typewriter
is1
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
is2
\family default
 
\emph on
bytes
\emph default
, respectively.
 This function requires behaved (though not necessarily contiguous) memory.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
scanfunc (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
FILE*
\family default
 fd, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 ip ,
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 sep ,
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that scans (scanf style) one element of the correspondi
ng type from the file descriptor 
\family typewriter
fd
\family default
 into the array memory pointed to by 
\family typewriter
ip
\family default
.
 The array is assumed to be behaved.
 If 
\family typewriter
sep
\family default
 is not NULL, then a separator string is also scanned from the file before
 returning.
 The last argument 
\family typewriter
arr
\family default
 is the array to be scanned into.
 A 0 is returned if the scan is successful.
 A negative number indicates something went wrong: -1 means the end of file
 was reached before the separator string could be scanned, -4 means that
 the end of file was reached before the element could be scanned, and -3
 means that the element could not be interpreted from the format string.
 Requires a behaved array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
fromstr (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 str, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 ip, 
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 endptr, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that converts the string pointed to by 
\family typewriter
str
\family default
 to one element of the corresponding type and places it in the memory location
 pointed to by 
\family typewriter
ip
\family default
.
 After the conversion is completed, 
\family typewriter
*endptr
\family default
 points to the rest of the string.
 The last argument 
\family typewriter
arr
\family default
 is the array into which ip points (needed for variable-size data-types).
 Returns 0 on success or -1 on failure.
 Requires a behaved array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nonzero (
\family typewriter
Bool
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that returns TRUE if the item of 
\family typewriter
arr
\family default
 pointed to by 
\family typewriter
data
\family default
 is nonzero.
 This function can deal with misbehaved arrays.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
fill (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 length, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that fills a contiguous array of given length with
 data.
 The first two elements of the array must already be filled-in.
 From these two values, a delta will be computed and the values from item
 3 to the end will be computed by repeatedly adding this computed delta.
 The data buffer must be well-behaved.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
fillwithscalar (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 buffer, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 length, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 value, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to a function that fills a contiguous 
\family typewriter
buffer
\family default
 of the given 
\family typewriter
length
\family default
 with a single scalar 
\family typewriter
value
\family default
 whose address is given.
 The final argument is the array which is needed to get the itemsize for
 variable-length arrays.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
sort (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 start, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 length, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 An array of function pointers to a particular sorting algorithms.
 A particular sorting algorithm is obtained using a key (so far 
\family typewriter
PyArray_QUICKSORT
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_HEAPSORT
\family default
, and 
\family typewriter
PyArray_MERGESORT
\family default
 are defined).
 These sorts are done in-place assuming contiguous and aligned data.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
argsort (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 start, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 result, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 length, void *arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 An array of function pointers to sorting algorithms for this data type.
 The same sorting algorithms as for sort are available.
 The indices producing the sort are returned in result (which must be initialize
d with indices 0 to length-1 inclusive).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
castdict
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Either 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 or a dictionary containing low-level casting functions for user-defined
 data-types.
 Each function is wrapped in a 
\family typewriter
PyCObject*
\family default
 and keyed by the data-type number.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
scalarkind (
\family typewriter
PyArray_SCALARKIND
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A function to determine how scalars of this type should be interpreted.
 The argument is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 or a 0-dimensional array containing the data (if that is needed to determine
 the kind of scalar).
 The return value must be of type 
\family typewriter
PyArray_SCALARKIND
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
cancastscalarkindto 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Either 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 or an array of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_NSCALARKINDS
\family default
 pointers.
 These pointers should each be either 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 or a pointer to an array of integers (terminated by 
\family typewriter
PyArray_NOTYPE
\family default
) indicating data-types that a scalar of this data-type of the specified
 kind can be cast to safely (this usually means without losing precision).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
cancastto
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Either 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 or an array of integers (terminated by 
\family typewriter
PyArray_NOTYPE
\family default
) indicated data-types that this data-type can be cast to safely (this usually
 means without losing precision).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
listpickle
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Unused.
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Standard
The 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
 typeobject implements many of the features of Python objects including
 the tp_as_number, tp_as_sequence, tp_as_mapping, and tp_as_buffer interfaces.
 The rich comparison (tp_richcompare) is also used along with new-style
 attribute lookup for methods (tp_methods) and properties (tp_getset).
 The 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
 can also be sub-typed.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Tip
The tp_as_number methods use a generic approach to call whatever function
 has been registered for handling the operation.
 The function PyNumeric_SetOps(..) can be used to register functions to handle
 particular mathematical operations (for all arrays).
 When the umath module is imported, it sets the numeric operations for all
 arrays to the corresponding ufuncs.
 
\newline
The tp_str and tp_repr methods can also be altered using PyString_SetStringFunc
tion(...).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
PyUFunc_Type
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The ufunc object is implemented by creation of the 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_Type
\family default

\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "PyUFunc\\_Type"

\end_inset

.
 It is a very simple type that implements only basic getattribute behavior,
 printing behavior, and has call behavior which allows these objects to
 act like functions.
 The basic idea behind the ufunc is to hold a reference to fast 1-dimensional
 (vector) loops for each data type that supports the operation.
 These one-dimensional loops all have the same signature and are the key
 to creating a new ufunc.
 They are called by the generic looping code as appropriate to implement
 the N-dimensional function.
 There are also some generic 1-d loops defined for floating and complexfloating
 arrays that allow you to define a ufunc using a single scalar function
 (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 atanh).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The core of the ufunc is the 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncObject
\family default
 which contains all the information needed to call the underlying C-code
 loops that perform the actual work.
 It has the following structure.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
typedef struct {
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyObject_HEAD
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
int
\emph default
 nin;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
int
\emph default
 nout;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
int
\emph default
 nargs;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
int
\emph default
 identity;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
PyUFuncGenericFunction *
\emph default
functions;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
void **
\emph default
data;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
int
\emph default
 ntypes;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
int
\emph default
 check_return;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
char *
\emph default
name;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
char *
\emph default
types;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
char *
\emph default
doc;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
void *
\emph default
ptr;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
PyObject *
\emph default
obj;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
PyObject *
\emph default
userloops;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
} 
\emph on
PyUFuncObject
\emph default
;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyObject_HEAD required for all Python objects.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nin The number of input arguments.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nout The number of output arguments.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nargs The total number of arguments (
\emph on
nin
\emph default
+
\emph on
nout
\emph default
).
 This must be less than 
\family typewriter
NPY_MAXARGS
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
identity Either 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_One
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_Zero
\family default
, or 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_None
\family default
 to indicate the identity for this operation.
 It is only used for a reduce-like call on an empty array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
functions (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 extradata )
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 An array of function pointers --- one for each data type supported by the
 ufunc.
 This is the vector loop that is called to implement the underlying function
 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
[0] times.
 The first argument, 
\emph on
args
\emph default
, is an array of 
\emph on
nargs
\emph default
 pointers to behaved memory.
 Pointers to the data for the input arguments are first, followed by the
 pointers to the data for the output arguments.
 How many bytes must be skipped to get to the next element in the sequence
 is specified by the corresponding entry in the 
\emph on
steps
\emph default
 array.
 The last argument allows the loop to receive extra information.
 This is commonly used so that a single, generic vector loop can be used
 for multiple functions.
 In this case, the actual scalar function to call is passed in as 
\emph on
extradata
\emph default
.
 The size of this function pointer array is ntypes.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
data Extra data to be passed to the 1-d vector loops or 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 if no extra-data is needed.
 This C-array must be the same size (
\emph on
i.e.

\emph default
 ntypes) as the functions array.
 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 is used if extra_data is not needed.
 Several C-API calls for UFuncs are just 1-d vector loops that make use
 of this extra data to receive a pointer to the actual function to call.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ntypes The number of supported data types for the ufunc.
 This number specifies how many different 1-d loops (of the builtin data
 types) are available.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
check_return Obsolete and unused.
 However, it is set by the corresponding entry in the main ufunc creation
 routine: 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_FromFuncAndData
\family default
(...).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
name A string name for the ufunc.
 This is used dynamically to build the __doc__ attribute of ufuncs.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
types An array of 
\emph on
nargs
\series bold
\emph default

\begin_inset Formula $\times$
\end_inset


\series default
\emph on
ntypes
\emph default
 8-bit type_numbers which contains the type signature for the function for
 each of the supported (builtin) data types.
 For each of the 
\emph on
ntypes
\emph default
 functions, the corresponding set of type numbers in this array shows how
 the 
\emph on
args
\emph default
 argument should be interpreted in the 1-d vector loop.
 These type numbers do not have to be the same type and mixed-type ufuncs
 are supported.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
doc Documentation for the ufunc.
 Should not contain the function signature as this is generated dynamically
 when __doc__ is retrieved.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ptr Any dynamically allocated memory.
 Currently, this is used for dynamic ufuncs created from a python function
 to store room for the types, data, and name members.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
obj For ufuncs dynamically created from python functions, this member holds
 a reference to the underlying Python function.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
userloops A dictionary of user-defined 1-d vector loops (stored as CObject
 ptrs) for user-defined types.
 A loop may be registered by the user for any user-defined type.
 It is retrieved by type number.
 User defined type numbers are always larger than 
\family typewriter
NPY_USERDEF
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
PyArrayIter_Type
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "PyArrayIter\\_Type"

\end_inset

 is an iterator object that makes it easy to loop over an N-dimensional
 array.
 It is the object returned from the flat attribute of an ndarray.
 It is also used extensively throughout the implementation internals to
 loop over an N-dimensional array.
 The tp_as_mapping interface is implemented so that the iterator object
 can be indexed (using 1-d indexing), and a few methods are implemented
 through the tp_methods table.
 This object implements the next method and can be used anywhere an iterator
 can be used in Python.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The C-structure corresponding to an object of 
\family typewriter
PyArrayIter_Type
\family default
 is the 
\family typewriter
PyArrayIterObject
\family default
.
 The 
\family typewriter
PyArrayIterObject
\family default
 is used to keep track of a pointer into an N-dimensional array.
 It contains associated information used to quickly march through the array.
 The pointer can be adjusted in three basic ways: 1) advance to the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

next
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 position in the array in a C-style contiguous fashion, 2) advance to an
 arbitrary N-dimensional coordinate in the array, and 3) advance to an arbitrary
 one-dimensional index into the array.
 The members of the 
\family typewriter
PyArrayIterObject
\family default
 structure are used in these calculations.
 Iterator objects keep their own dimension and strides information about
 an array.
 This can be adjusted as needed for 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

broadcasting,
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 or to loop over only specific dimensions.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
typedef struct {
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyObject_HEAD
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
int
\emph default
   nd_m1;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
npy_intp
\emph default
  index;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
npy_intp
\emph default
  size;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
npy_intp
\emph default
  coordinates
\emph on
[NPY_MAXDIMS]
\emph default
;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
npy_intp
\emph default
  dims_m1
\emph on
[NPY_MAXDIMS]
\emph default
;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
npy_intp
\emph default
  strides
\emph on
[NPY_MAXDIMS]
\emph default
;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    
\emph on
npy_intp
\emph default
  backstrides
\emph on
[NPY_MAXDIMS]
\emph default
;
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\emph default
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\begin_inset Formula $N-1$
\end_inset

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\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

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\end_layout

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\end_layout

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\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

-dimensional index into the array.
\end_layout

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\end_layout

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strides The strides of the array.
 How many bytes needed to jump to the next element in each dimension.
 
\end_layout

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backstrides How many bytes needed to jump from the end of a dimension back
 to its beginning.
 Note that 
\emph on
backstrides
\emph default
[k]=
\emph on
strides
\emph default
[k]*d
\emph on
ims_m1
\emph default
[k], but it is stored here as an optimization.
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factors This array is used in computing an N-d index from a 1-d index.
 It contains needed products of the dimensions.
 
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\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
dataptr This member points to an element in the ndarray indicated by the
 index.
\end_layout

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contiguous This flag is true if the underlying array is 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
.
 It is used to simplify calculations when possible.
 
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\begin_layout Standard
How to use an array iterator on a C-level is explained more fully in later
 sections.
 Typically, you do not need to concern yourself with the internal structure
 of the iterator object, and merely interact with it through the use of
 the macros 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ITER_NEXT
\family default
(it), 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ITER_GOTO
\family default
(it, dest), or 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ITER_GOTO1D
\family default
(it, index).
 All of these macros require the argument 
\emph on
it
\emph default
 to be a 
\family typewriter
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\family default
.
 
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This type provides an iterator that encapsulates the concept of broadcasting.
 It allows 
\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

 arrays to be broadcast together so that the loop progresses in C-style
 contiguous fashion over the broadcasted array.
 The corresponding C-structure is the 
\family typewriter
PyArrayMultiIterObject
\family default
 whose memory layout must begin any object, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, passed in to the 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Broadcast
\family default
(obj) function.
 Broadcasting is performed by adjusting array iterators so that each iterator
 represents the broadcasted shape and size, but has its strides adjusted
 so that the correct element from the array is used at each iteration.
 
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\emph on
PyArrayMultiIterObject
\emph default
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PyObject_HEAD Needed at the start of every Python object (holds reference
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numiter The number of arrays that need to be broadcast to the same shape.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
size The total broadcasted size.
\end_layout

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index The current (1-d) index into the broadcasted result.
\end_layout

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nd The number of dimensions in the broadcasted result.
\end_layout

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dimensions The shape of the broadcasted result (only 
\family typewriter
nd
\family default
 slots are used).
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\begin_layout Description
iters An array of iterator objects that holds the iterators for the arrays
 to be broadcast together.
 On return, the iterators are adjusted for broadcasting.
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
PyArrayFlags_Type
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\begin_layout Standard
When the flags attribute is retrieved from Python, a special builtin object
 of this type is constructed.
 This special type makes it easier to work with the different flags by accessing
 them as attributes or by accessing them as if the object were a dictionary
 with the flag names as entries.
 
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ScalarArrayTypes
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\begin_layout Standard
There is a Python type for each of the different built-in data types that
 can be present in the array Most of these are simple wrappers around the
 corresponding data type in C.
 The C-names for these types are 
\series bold
Py
\series default
<TYPE>
\series bold
ArrType_Type
\series default
 where <TYPE> can be 
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\series bold
Bool
\series default
, 
\series bold
Byte
\series default
, 
\series bold
Short
\series default
, 
\series bold
Int
\series default
, 
\series bold
Long
\series default
, 
\series bold
LongLong
\series default
, 
\series bold
UByte
\series default
, 
\series bold
UShort
\series default
, 
\series bold
UInt
\series default
, 
\series bold
ULong
\series default
, 
\series bold
ULongLong
\series default
, 
\series bold
Float
\series default
, 
\series bold
Double
\series default
, 
\series bold
LongDouble
\series default
, 
\series bold
CFloat
\series default
, 
\series bold
CDouble
\series default
, 
\series bold
CLongDouble
\series default
, 
\series bold
String
\series default
, 
\series bold
Unicode
\series default
, 
\series bold
Void
\series default
, and 
\series bold
Object
\series default
.
 
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\begin_layout Standard
These type names are part of the C-API and can therefore be created in extension
 C-code.
 There is also a 
\family typewriter
PyIntpArrType_Type
\family default
 and a 
\family typewriter
PyUIntpArrType_Type
\family default
 that are simple substitutes for one of the integer types that can hold
 a pointer on the platform.
 The structure of these scalar objects is not exposed to C-code.
 The function 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ScalarAsCtype
\family default
(..) can be used to extract the C-type value from the array scalar and the
 function 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Scalar
\family default
(...) can be used to construct an array scalar from a C-value.
 
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\begin_layout Section
Other C-Structures
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A few new C-structures were found to be useful in the development of NumPy.
 These C-structures are used in at least one C-API call and are therefore
 documented here.
 The main reason these structures were defined is to make it easy to use
 the Python ParseTuple C-API to convert from Python objects to a useful
 C-Object.
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
PyArray_Dims
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This structure is very useful when shape and/or strides information is supposed
 to be interpreted.
 The structure is 
\end_layout

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\emph on
npy_intp *
\emph default
ptr;
\end_layout

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\emph on
int
\emph default
 len;
\end_layout

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\emph on
PyArray_Dims
\emph default
;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The members of this structure are
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ptr A pointer to a list of (
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
) integers which usually represent array shape or array strides.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
len The length of the list of integers.
 It is assumed safe to access 
\emph on
ptr
\emph default
[0] to 
\emph on
ptr
\emph default
[len-1].
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
PyArray_Chunk
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This is equivalent to the buffer object structure in Python up to the ptr
 member.
 On 32-bit platforms (
\emph on
i.e.

\emph default
 if 
\family typewriter
NPY_SIZEOF_INT
\family default
==
\family typewriter
NPY_SIZEOF_INTP
\family default
) or in Python 2.5, the len member also matches an equivalent member of the
 buffer object.
 It is useful to represent a generic single-segment chunk of memory.
 
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\emph default
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\emph default
 flags;
\end_layout

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\emph on
PyArray_Chunk
\emph default
;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The members are
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyObject_HEAD Necessary for all Python objects.
 Included here so that the 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Chunk
\family default
 structure matches that of the buffer object (at least to the len member).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
base The Python object this chunk of memory comes from.
 Needed so that memory can be accounted for properly.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ptr A pointer to the start of the single-segment chunk of memory.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
len The length of the segment in bytes.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
flags Any data flags (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 
\family typewriter
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\family default
) that should be used to interpret the memory.
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
PyArrayInterface
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The 
\family typewriter
PyArrayInterface
\family default

\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "PyArrayInterface"

\end_inset

 structure is defined so that NumPy and other extension modules can use
 the rapid array interface protocol.
 The 
\series bold
__array_struct__
\series default
 method of an object that supports the rapid array interface protocol should
 return a 
\family typewriter
PyCObject
\family default
 that contains a pointer to a 
\family typewriter
PyArrayInterface
\family default
 structure with the relevant details of the array.
 After the new array is created, the attribute should be 
\family typewriter
DECREF
\family default
'd which will free the 
\family typewriter
PyArrayInterface
\family default
 structure.
 Remember to 
\family typewriter
INCREF
\family default
 the object (whose 
\series bold
__array_struct__
\series default
 attribute was retrieved) and point the base member of the new 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject
\family default
 to this same object.
 In this way the memory for the array will be managed correctly.
 
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\emph default
 two;
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\emph default
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\emph on
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\emph default
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\begin_layout Description
two the integer 2 as a sanity check.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nd the number of dimensions in the array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
typekind A character indicating what kind of array is present according
 to the typestring convention with 't' -> bitfield, 'b' -> Boolean, 'i'
 -> signed integer, 'u' -> unsigned integer, 'f' -> floating point, 'c'
 -> complex floating point, 'O' -> object, 'S' -> string, 'U' -> unicode,
 'V' -> void.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
itemsize the number of bytes each item in the array requires.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
flags any of the bits 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 (1), 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 (2), 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
 (0x100), 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOTSWAPPED
\family default
 (0x200), or 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 (0x400) to indicate something about the data.
 The 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
, and 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 flags can actually be determined from the other parameters.
 The flag 
\family typewriter
NPY_ARR_HAS_DESCR
\family default
 (0x800) can also be set to indicate to objects consuming the version 3
 array interface that the descr member of the structure is present (it will
 be ignored by objects consuming version 2 of the array interface).
 
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\begin_layout Description
shape An array containing the size of the array in each dimension.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
strides An array containing the number of bytes to jump to get to the next
 element in each dimension.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
data A pointer 
\emph on
to
\emph default
 the first element of the array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
descr A Python object describing the data-type in more detail (currently
 an array_description list of tuples).
 This can be 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 if 
\emph on
typekind
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
itemsize
\emph default
 provide enough information.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Internally used structures
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Internally, the code uses some additional Python objects primarily for memory
 management.
 These types are not accessible directly from Python, and are not exposed
 to the C-API.
 They are included here only for completeness and assistance in understanding
 the code.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
PyUFuncLoopObject
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A loose wrapper for a C-structure that contains the information needed for
 looping.
 This is useful if you are trying to understand the ufunc looping code.
 The 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncLoopObject
\family default
 is the associated C-structure.
 It is defined in the 
\family typewriter
ufuncobject.h
\family default
 header.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
PyUFuncReduceObject
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A loose wrapper for the C-structure that contains the information needed
 for reduce-like methods of ufuncs.
 This is useful if you are trying to understand the reduce, accumulate,
 and reduce-at code.
 The 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncReduceObject
\family default
 is the associated C-structure.
 It is defined in the 
\family typewriter
ufuncobject.h
\family default
 header.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
PyUFunc_Loop1d
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A simple linked-list of C-structures containing the information needed to
 define a 1-d loop for a ufunc for every defined signature of a user-defined
 data-type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
PyArrayMapIter_Type
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Advanced indexing is handled with this Python type.
 It is simply a loose wrapper around the C-structure containing the variables
 needed for advanced array indexing.
 The associated C-structure, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayMapIterObject
\family default
, is useful if you are trying to understand the advanced-index mapping code.
 It is defined in the 
\family typewriter
arrayobject.h
\family default
 header.
 This type is not exposed to Python and could be replaced with a C-structure.
 As a Python type it takes advantage of reference-counted memory management.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Chapter
Complete API
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
 ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
F.
 Scott Fitzgerald
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
 for Nature cannot be fooled.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
Richard P.
 Feynman
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Configuration defines
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When NumPy is built, a configuration file is constructed and placed as config.h
 in the NumPy include directory.
 This configuration file ensures that specific macros are defined and defines
 other macros based on whether or not your system has certain features.
 It is included by the arrayobject.h file.
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
Guaranteed to be defined
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The 
\series bold
SIZEOF_
\series default
<CTYPE> constants are defined so that sizeof information is available to
 the pre-processor.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
CHAR_BIT The number of bits of a char.
 The char is the unit of all sizeof definitions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_SHORT sizeof(short)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_INT sizeof(int)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_LONG sizeof(long)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_LONG_LONG sizeof(longlong) where longlong is defined appropriately
 on the platform (A macro defines 
\series bold
SIZEOF_LONGLONG
\series default
 as well.)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_PY_LONG_LONG
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_FLOAT sizeof(float)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_DOUBLE sizeof(double)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE sizeof(longdouble) (A macro defines 
\series bold
SIZEOF_LONGDOUBLE
\series default
 as well.)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
SIZEOF_PY_INTPTR_T Size of a pointer on this platform (sizeof(void *)) (A
 macro defines SIZEOF_INTP as well.)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Possible defines
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
These defines will cause the compilation to ignore compatibility code that
 is placed in NumPy and use the system code instead.
 If they are not defined, then the system does not have that capability.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_LONGDOUBLE_FUNCS System has C99 long double math functions.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_FLOAT_FUNCS System has C99 float math functions.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_INVERSE_HYPERBOLIC System has inverse hyperbolic functions: asinh,
 acosh, and atanh.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_INVERSE_HYPERBOLIC_FLOAT System has C99 float extensions to inverse
 hyperbolic functions: asinhf, acoshf, atanhf
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_INVERSE_HYPERBOLIC_LONGDOUBLE System has C99 long double extensions
 to inverse hyperbolic functions: asinhl, acoshl, atanhl.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_ISNAN System has an isnan function.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_ISINF System has an isinf function.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_LOG1P System has the log1p function: 
\begin_inset Formula $\log\left(x+1\right)$
\end_inset

.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_EXPM1 System has the expm1 function: 
\begin_inset Formula $\exp\left(x\right)-1$
\end_inset

.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
HAVE_RINT System has the rint function.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Array Data Types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The standard array can have 21 different data types (and has some support
 for adding your own types).
 These data types all have an enumerated type, an enumerated type-character,
 and a corresponding array scalar Python type object (placed in a hierarchy).
 There are also standard C typedefs to make it easier to manipulate elements
 of the given data type.
 For the numeric types, there are also bit-width equivalent C typedefs and
 named typenumbers that make it easier to select the precision desired.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Warning
The names for the types in c code follows c naming conventions more closely.
 The Python names for these types follow Python conventions.
 Thus, NPY_FLOAT picks up a 32-bit float in C, but 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

float_
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 in python corresponds to a 64-bit double.
 The bit-width names can be used in both Python and C for clarity.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Enumerated Types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There is a list of enumerated types defined providing the basic 21 data
 types plus some useful generic names.
 Whenever the code requires a type number, one of these enumerated types
 is requested.
 The types are all called 
\series bold
NPY_
\series default
<NAME> where <NAME> can be 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
BOOL
\series default
, 
\series bold
BYTE
\series default
, 
\series bold
UBYTE
\series default
, 
\series bold
SHORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
USHORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
INT
\series default
, 
\series bold
UINT
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
ULONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONGLONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
ULONGLONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
FLOAT
\series default
, 
\series bold
DOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONGDOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
CFLOAT
\series default
, 
\series bold
CDOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
CLONGDOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
OBJECT
\series default
, 
\series bold
STRING
\series default
, 
\series bold
UNICODE
\series default
, 
\series bold
VOID
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\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
NTYPES
\series default
, 
\series bold
NOTYPE
\series default
, 
\series bold
USERDEF
\series default
, 
\series bold
DEFAULT_TYPE
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The various character codes indicating certain types are also part of an
 enumerated list.
 References to type characters (should they be needed at all) should always
 use these enumerations.
 The form of them is 
\series bold
NPY_
\series default
<NAME>
\series bold
LTR
\series default
 where <NAME> can be 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
BOOL
\series default
, 
\series bold
BYTE
\series default
, 
\series bold
UBYTE
\series default
, 
\series bold
SHORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
USHORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
INT
\series default
, 
\series bold
UINT
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
ULONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONGLONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
ULONGLONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
FLOAT
\series default
, 
\series bold
DOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONGDOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
CFLOAT
\series default
, 
\series bold
CDOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
CLONGDOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
OBJECT
\series default
, 
\series bold
STRING
\series default
, 
\series bold
VOID
\series default
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
INTP
\series default
, 
\series bold
UINTP 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
GENBOOL
\series default
, 
\series bold
SIGNED
\series default
, 
\series bold
UNSIGNED
\series default
, 
\series bold
FLOATING
\series default
, 
\series bold
COMPLEX
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The latter group of <NAME>s corresponds to letters used in the array interface
 typestring specification.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Defines
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Max and min values for integers
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_MAX_INT
\series medium
<bits>
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_MAX_UINT
\series medium
<bits>
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_MIN_INT
\series medium
<bits>
\series default
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 These are defined for <bits> = 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 and provide
 the maximum (minimum) value of the corresponding (unsigned) integer type.
 Note: the actual integer type may not be available on all platforms (i.e.
 128-bit and 256-bit integers are rare).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_MIN_
\series medium
<type>
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This is defined for <type> = 
\series bold
BYTE
\series default
, 
\series bold
SHORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
INT
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONGLONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
INTP
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_MAX_
\series medium
<type>
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This is defined for all defined for <type> = 
\series bold
BYTE
\series default
, 
\series bold
UBYTE
\series default
, 
\series bold
SHORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
USHORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
INT
\series default
, 
\series bold
UINT
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
ULONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONGLONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
ULONGLONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
INTP
\series default
, 
\series bold
UINTP
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Number of bits in data types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
All 
\series bold
NPY_SIZEOF_
\series default
<CTYPE> constants have corresponding 
\series bold
NPY_BITSOF_
\series default
<CTYPE> constants defined.
 The 
\series bold
NPY_BITSOF_
\series default
<CTYPE> constants provide the number of bits in the data type.
 Specifically, the available <CTYPE>s are 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
BOOL
\series default
, 
\series bold
CHAR
\series default
, 
\series bold
SHORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
INT
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONGLONG
\series default
, 
\series bold
FLOAT
\series default
, 
\series bold
DOUBLE
\series default
, 
\series bold
LONGDOUBLE
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Bit-width references to enumerated typenums
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
All of the numeric data types (integer, floating point, and complex) have
 constants that are defined to be a specific enumerated type number.
 Exactly which enumerated type a bit-width type refers to is platform dependent.
 In particular, the constants available are 
\series bold
PyArray_
\series default
<NAME><BITS> where <NAME> is 
\series bold
INT
\series default
, 
\series bold
UINT
\series default
, 
\series bold
FLOAT
\series default
, 
\series bold
COMPLEX
\series default
 and <BITS> can be 8, 16, 32, 64, 80, 96, 128, 160, 192, 256, and 512.
 Obviously not all bit-widths are available on all platforms for all the
 kinds of numeric types.
 Commonly 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-bit integers; 32-, 64-bit floats; and 64-, 128-bit
 complex types are available.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Integer that can hold a pointer
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The constants 
\series bold
PyArray_INTP
\series default
 and 
\series bold
PyArray_UINTP
\series default
 refer to an enumerated integer type that is large enough to hold a pointer
 on the platform.
 Index arrays should always be converted to 
\series bold
PyArray_INTP
\series default
, because the dimension of the array is of type npy_intp.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
C-type names
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There are standard variable types for each of the numeric data types and
 the bool data type.
 Some of these are already available in the C-specification.
 You can create variables in extension code with these types.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Boolean
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_bool unsigned char; The constants NPY_FALSE and NPY_TRUE are also defined.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
(Un)Signed Integer
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Unsigned versions of the integers can be defined by pre-pending a 'u' to
 the front of the integer name.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(u)byte (unsigned) char
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(u)short (unsigned) short
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(u)int (unsigned) int
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(u)long (unsigned) long int
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(u)longlong (unsigned long long int)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(u)intp (unsigned) Py_intptr_t (an integer that is the size of a pointer
 on the platform).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
(Complex) Floating point
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(c)float float
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(c)double double
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
npy_(c)longdouble long double
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
complex types are structures with 
\series bold
.real
\series default
 and 
\series bold
.imag
\series default
 members (in that order).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Bit-width names
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There are also typedefs for signed integers, unsigned integers, floating
 point, and complex floating point types of specific bit-widths.
 The available type names are 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
npy_int
\series default
<bits>, 
\series bold
npy_uint
\series default
<bits>, 
\series bold
npy_float
\series default
<bits>, and 
\series bold
npy_complex
\series default
<bits>
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
where <bits> is the number of bits in the type and can be 
\series bold
8
\series default
, 
\series bold
16
\series default
, 
\series bold
32
\series default
, 
\series bold
64
\series default
, 128, and 256 for integer types; 16, 
\series bold
32
\series default
, 
\series bold
64
\series default
, 80, 96, 128, and 256 for floating-point types; and 32, 
\series bold
64
\series default
, 
\series bold
128
\series default
, 160, 192, and 512 for complex-valued types.
 Which bit-widths are available is platform dependent.
 The bolded bit-widths are usually available on all platforms.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Printf Formatting
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
For help in printing, the following strings are defined as the correct format
 specifier in printf and related commands.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
NPY_LONGLONG_FMT
\series default
, 
\series bold
NPY_ULONGLONG_FMT
\series default
, 
\series bold
NPY_INTP_FMT
\series default
, 
\series bold
NPY_UINTP_FMT
\series default
, 
\series bold
NPY_LONGDOUBLE_FMT
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Array API
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ndarray!C-API|("

\end_inset


\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "C-API!array|("

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Array structure and data access
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
These macros all access the PyArrayObject structure members.
 The input argument, obj, can be any 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 that is directly interpretable as a 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 (any instance of the 
\series bold
PyArray_Type
\series default
 and its sub-types).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DATA (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_BYTES (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 These two macros are similar and obtain the pointer to the data-buffer
 for the array.
 The first macro can (and should be) assigned to a particular pointer where
 the second is for generic processing.
 If you have not guaranteed a contiguous and/or aligned array then be sure
 you understand how to access the data in the array to avoid memory and/or
 alignment problems.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DIMS (
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_STRIDES (
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DIM (
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 n)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the shape in the 
\emph on
n
\emph default

\begin_inset Formula $^{\textrm{th}}$
\end_inset

 dimension.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_STRIDE (
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 n)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the stride in the 
\emph on
n
\emph default

\begin_inset Formula $^{\textrm{th}}$
\end_inset

 dimension.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_BASE (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DESCR (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FLAGS (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ITEMSIZE (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the itemsize for the elements of this array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_TYPE (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the (builtin) typenumber for the elements of this array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GETITEM (
\family typewriter
PyObject
\family default
 *) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 itemptr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Get a Python object from the ndarray, 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
, at the location pointed to by itemptr.
 Return 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 on failure.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SETITEM (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 itemptr, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert obj and place it in the ndarray, 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
, at the place pointed to by itemptr.
 Return -1 if an error occurs or 0 on success.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SIZE (
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns the total size (in number of elements) of the array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Size (
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns 0 if 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 is not a sub-class of bigndarray.
 Otherwise, returns the total number of elements in the array.
 Safer version of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_SIZE
\family default
(
\emph on
obj
\emph default
).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_NBYTES (
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns the total number of bytes consumed by the array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Data access
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
These functions and macros provide easy access to elements of the ndarray
 from C.
 These work for all arrays.
 You may need to take care when accessing the data in the array, however,
 if it is not in machine byte-order, misaligned, or not writeable.
 In other words, be sure to respect the state of the flags unless you know
 what you are doing, or have previously guaranteed an array that is writeable,
 aligned, and in machine byte-order using PyArray_FromAny.
 If you wish to handle all types of arrays, the copyswap function for each
 type is useful for handling misbehaved arrays.
 Some platforms (e.g.
 Solaris) do not like misaligned data and will crash if you de-reference
 a misaligned pointer.
 Other platforms (e.g.
 x86 Linux) will just work more slowly with misaligned data.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GetPtr (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 aobj, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 ind)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return a pointer to the data of the ndarray, 
\emph on
aobj
\emph default
, at the N-dimensional index given by the c-array, 
\emph on
ind
\emph default
, (which must be at least 
\emph on
aobj
\emph default
->nd in size).
 You may want to typecast the returned pointer to the data type of the ndarray.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GETPTR1 (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 i)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GETPTR2 (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 i, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 j)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GETPTR3 (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 i, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 j, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 k)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GETPTR4 (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 i, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 j, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 k, 
\family typewriter
<npy_intp>
\family default
 l)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Quick, inline access to the element at the given coordinates in the ndarray,
 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, which must have respectively 1, 2, 3, or 4 dimensions (this is not checked).
 The corresponding 
\emph on
i
\emph default
, 
\emph on
j
\emph default
, 
\emph on
k
\emph default
, and 
\emph on
l
\emph default
 coordinates can be any integer but will be interpreted as 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
.
 You may want to typecast the returned pointer to the data type of the ndarray.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Creating arrays
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
From scratch
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_NewFromDescr (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyTypeObject*
\family default
 subtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 descr, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 strides, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 flags, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This is the main array creation function.
 Most new arrays are created with this flexible function.
 The returned object is an object of Python-type 
\emph on
subtype
\emph default
, which must be a subtype of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
.
 The array has 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
 dimensions, described by 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
.
 The data-type descriptor of the new array is 
\emph on
descr
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
subtype
\emph default
 is not 
\family typewriter
&PyArray_Type
\family default
 (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 a Python subclass of the ndarray), then 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 is the object to pass to the 
\series bold
__array_finalize__
\series default
 method of the subclass.
 If 
\emph on
data
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, then new memory will be allocated and 
\emph on
flags
\emph default
 can be non-zero to indicate a Fortran-style contiguous array.
 If 
\emph on
data
\emph default
 is not 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, then it is assumed to point to the memory to be used for the array and
 the 
\emph on
flags
\emph default
 argument is used as the new flags for the array (except the state of 
\family typewriter
NPY_OWNDATA
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
UPDATEIFCOPY
\family default
 flags of the new array will be reset).
 In addition, if 
\emph on
data
\emph default
 is non-NULL, then 
\emph on
strides
\emph default
 can also be provided.
 If 
\emph on
strides
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, then the array strides are computed as C-style contiguous (default) or
 Fortran-style contiguous (
\emph on
flags
\emph default
 is nonzero for 
\emph on
data
\emph default
=
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 or 
\emph on
flags
\emph default
 & 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 is nonzero non-NULL 
\emph on
data
\emph default
).
 Any provided 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
strides
\emph default
 are copied into newly allocated dimension and strides arrays for the new
 array object.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_New (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyTypeObject*
\family default
 subtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 type_num, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 strides, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 itemsize, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 flags, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This is similar to 
\family typewriter
PyArray
\family default
\series bold
_
\family typewriter
\series default
DescrNew
\family default
(...) except you specify the data-type descriptor with 
\emph on
type_num
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
itemsize
\emph default
, where 
\emph on
type_num
\emph default
 corresponds to a builtin (or user-defined) type.
 If the type always has the same number of bytes, then itemsize is ignored.
 Otherwise, itemsize specifies the particular size of this array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Warning
If data is passed to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_NewFromDescr
\family default
 or 
\family typewriter
PyArray_New
\family default
, this memory must not be deallocated until the new array is deleted.
 If this data came from another Python object, this can be accomplished
 using 
\family typewriter
Py_INCREF
\family default
 on that object and setting the base member of the new array to point to
 that object.
 If strides are passed in they must be consistent with the dimensions, the
 itemsize, and the data of the array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SimpleNew (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Create a new unitialized array of type, 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
, whose size in each of 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
 dimensions is given by the integer array, 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
.
 This function cannot be used to create a flexible-type array (no itemsize
 given).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SimpleNewFromData (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Create an array wrapper around 
\emph on
data
\emph default
 pointed to by the given pointer.
 The array flags will have a default that the data area is well-behaved
 and C-style contiguous.
 The shape of the array is given by the 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
 c-array of length 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
.
 The data-type of the array is indicated by 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SimpleNewFromDescr (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Create a new array with the provided data-type descriptor, 
\emph on
descr
\emph default
, of the shape deteremined by 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FILLWBYTE (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 val)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Fill the array pointed to by 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
---which must be a (subclass of) bigndarray---with the contents of 
\emph on
val
\emph default
 (evaluated as a byte).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Zeros (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 fortran)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Construct a new 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
-dimensional array with shape given by 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
 and data type given by 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
fortran
\emph default
 is non-zero, then a Fortran-order array is created, otherwise a C-order
 array is created.
 Fill the memory with zeros (or the 0 object if 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 corresponds to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_OBJECT
\family default
).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ZEROS (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 type_num, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 fortran)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Macro form of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Zeros
\family default
 which takes a type-number instead of a data-type object.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Empty (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 fortran)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Construct a new 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
-dimensional array with shape given by 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
 and data type given by 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
fortran
\emph default
 is non-zero, then a Fortran-order array is created, otherwise a C-order
 array is created.
 The array is uninitialized unless the data type corresponds to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_OBJECT
\family default
 in which case the array is filled with 
\family typewriter
Py_None
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_EMPTY (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 fortran)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Macro form of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Empty
\family default
 which takes a type-number, 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
, instead of a data-type object.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Arange (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
double
\family default
 start, 
\family typewriter
double
\family default
 stop, 
\family typewriter
double
\family default
 step, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Construct a new 1-dimensional array of data-type, 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
, that ranges from 
\emph on
start
\emph default
 to 
\emph on
stop
\emph default
 (exclusive) in increments of 
\emph on
step
\emph default
.
 Equivalent to 
\series bold
arange
\series default
(
\emph on
start
\emph default
, 
\emph on
stop
\emph default
, 
\emph on
step
\emph default
, dtype).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ArangeObj (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 start, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 stop, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 step, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Construct a new 1-dimensional array of data-type determined by 
\family typewriter
descr
\family default
, that ranges from 
\family typewriter
start
\family default
 to 
\family typewriter
stop
\family default
 (exclusive) in increments of 
\family typewriter
step
\family default
.
 Equivalent to arange(
\family typewriter
start
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
stop
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
step
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
typenum
\family default
).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
From other objects
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromAny (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 min_depth, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 max_depth, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 requirements, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 context)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This is the main function used to obtain an array from any nested sequence,
 or object that exposes the array interface, 
\family typewriter
op
\family default
.
 The parameters allow specification of the required 
\emph on
type
\emph default
, the minimum (
\emph on
min_depth
\emph default
) and maximum (
\emph on
max_depth
\emph default
) number of dimensions acceptable, and other 
\emph on
requirements
\emph default
 for the array.
 The 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 argument needs to be a 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr
\family default
 structure indicating the desired data-type (including required byteorder).
 The 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 argument may be NULL, indicating that any data-type (and byteorder) is
 acceptable.
 If you want to use 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 for the 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 and ensure the array is notswapped then use 
\family typewriter
PyArray_CheckFromAny
\family default
.
 A value of 0 for either of the depth parameters causes the parameter to
 be ignored.
 Any of the following array flags can be added (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 using |) to get the 
\emph on
requirements
\emph default
 argument.
 If your code can handle general (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 strided, byte-swapped, or unaligned arrays) then 
\emph on
requirements
\emph default
 may be 0.
 Also, if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is not already an array (or does not expose the array interface), then
 a new array will be created (and filled from 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 using the sequence protocol).
 The new array will have 
\family typewriter
NPY_DEFAULT
\family default
 as its flags member.
 The 
\emph on
context
\emph default
 argument is passed to the 
\series bold
__array__
\series default
 method of 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 and is only used if the array is constructed that way.
 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS Make sure the returned array is C-style contiguous
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS Make sure the returned array is Fortran-style contiguous.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ALIGNED Make sure the returned array is aligned on proper boundaries
 for its data type.
 An aligned array has the data pointer and every strides factor as a multiple
 of the alignment factor for the data-type-descriptor.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_WRITEABLE Make sure the returned array can be written to.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ENSURECOPY Make sure a copy is made of 
\emph on
op
\emph default
.
 If this flag is not present, data is not copied if it can be avoided.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ENSUREARRAY Make sure the result is a base-class ndarray or bigndarray.
 By default, if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is an instance of a subclass of the bigndarray, an instance of that same
 subclass is returned.
 If this flag is set, an ndarray object will be returned instead.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_FORCECAST Force a cast to the output type even if it cannot be done
 safely.
 Without this flag, a data cast will occur only if it can be done safely,
 otherwise an error is reaised.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY If 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is already an array, but does not satisfy the requirements, then a copy
 is made (which will satisfy the requirements).
 If this flag is present and a copy (of an object that is already an array)
 must be made, then the corresponding 
\family typewriter
NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY
\family default
 flag is set in the returned copy and 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is made to be read-only.
 When the returned copy is deleted (presumably after your calculations are
 complete), its contents will be copied back into 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 and the 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 array will be made writeable again.
 If 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is not writeable to begin with, then an error is raised.
 If 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is not already an array, then this flag has no effect.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_BEHAVED 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_CARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_BEHAVED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_CARRAY_RO 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_FARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_BEHAVED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_FARRAY_RO 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_DEFAULT 
\family typewriter
NPY_CARRAY
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_IN_ARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_IN_FARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_INOUT_ARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_INOUT_FARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_OUT_ARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_OUT_FARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
UPDATEIFCOPY
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CheckFromAny (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 min_depth, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 max_depth, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 requirements, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 context)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Nearly identical to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
(...) except 
\emph on
requirements
\emph default
 can contain 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOTSWAPPED
\family default
 (over-riding the specification in 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
) and 
\family typewriter
NPY_ELEMENTSTRIDES
\family default
 which indicates that the array should be aligned in the sense that the
 strides are multiples of the element size.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_NOTSWAPPED Make sure the returned array has a data-type descriptor that
 is in machine byte-order, over-riding any specification in the 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 argument.
 Normally, the byte-order requirement is determined by the 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 argument.
 If this flag is set and the dtype argument does not indicate a machine
 byte-order descriptor (or is NULL and the object is already an array with
 a data-type descriptor that is not in machine byte-order), then a new data-type
 descriptor is created and used with its byte-order field set to native.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_BEHAVED_NS 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOTSWAPPED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ELEMENTSTRIDES Make sure the returned array has strides that are multiples
 of the element size.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromArray (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 newtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 requirements)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Special case of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
 for when 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is already an array but it needs to be of a specific 
\emph on
newtype
\emph default
 (including byte-order) or has certain 
\emph on
requirements
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromStructInterface (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns an ndarray object from a Python object that exposes the 
\series bold
__array_struct__
\series default
 method and follows the array interface protocol.
 If the object does not contain this method then a borrowed reference to
 
\family typewriter
Py_NotImplemented
\family default
 is returned.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromInterface (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns an ndarray object from a Python object that exposes the 
\series bold
__array_shape__
\series default
 and 
\series bold
__array_typestr__
\series default
 methods following the array interface protocol.
 If the object does not contain one of these method then a borrowed reference
 to 
\family typewriter
Py_NotImplemented
\family default
 is returned.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromArrayAttr (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 context)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return an ndarray object from a Python object that exposes the 
\series bold
__array__
\series default
 method.
 The 
\series bold
__array__
\series default
 method can take 0, 1, or 2 arguments ([dtype, context]) where 
\emph on
context
\emph default
 is used to pass information about where the 
\series bold
__array__
\series default
 method is being called from (currently only used in ufuncs).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ContiguousFromAny (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 min_depth, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 max_depth)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function returns a (C-style) contiguous and behaved function array
 from any nested sequence or array interface exporting object, 
\emph on
op
\emph default
, of (non-flexible) type given by the enumerated 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
, of minimum depth 
\emph on
min_depth
\emph default
, and of maximum depth 
\emph on
max_depth
\emph default
.
 Equivalent to a call to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
 with requirements set to 
\family typewriter
NPY_DEFAULT
\family default
 and the type_num member of the type argument set to 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromObject (PyObject *) (PyObject * op, int typenum, int min_depth,
 int max_depth)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return an aligned and in native-byteorder array from any nested sequence
 or array-interface exporting object, op, of a type given by the enumerated
 typenum.
 The minimum number of dimensions the array can have is given by min_depth
 while the maximum is max_depth.
 This is equivalent to a call to PyArray_FromAny with requirements set to
 BEHAVED.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_EnsureArray (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function 
\series bold
steals a reference
\series default
 to 
\family typewriter
op
\family default
 and makes sure that 
\family typewriter
op
\family default
 is a base-class ndarray.
 It special cases array scalars, but otherwise calls 
\series bold
PyArray_FromAny
\series default
(
\family typewriter
op
\family default
, NULL, 0, 0, NPY_ENSUREARRAY).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromString (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 string, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 slen, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 num, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 sep)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Construct a one-dimensional ndarray of a single type from a binary or (ASCII)
 text 
\family typewriter
string
\family default
 of length 
\family typewriter
slen
\family default
.
 The data-type of the array to-be-created is given by 
\family typewriter
dtype
\family default
.
 If num is -1, then 
\series bold
copy
\series default
 the entire string and return an appropriately sized array, otherwise, 
\family typewriter
num
\family default
 is the number of items to 
\series bold
copy
\series default
 from the string.
 If 
\family typewriter
sep
\family default
 is NULL (or 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset


\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

), then interpret the string as bytes of binary data, otherwise convert
 the sub-strings separated by 
\family typewriter
sep
\family default
 to items of data-type 
\family typewriter
dtype
\family default
.
 Some data-types may not be readable in text mode and an error will be raised
 if that occurs.
 All errors return NULL.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromFile (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
FILE*
\family default
 fp, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 num, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 sep)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Construct a one-dimensional ndarray of a single type from a binary or text
 file.
 The open file pointer is 
\family typewriter
fp
\family default
, the data-type of the array to be created is given by 
\family typewriter
dtype
\family default
.
 This must match the data in the file.
 If 
\family typewriter
num
\family default
 is -1, then read until the end of the file and return an appropriately
 sized array, otherwise, 
\family typewriter
num
\family default
 is the number of items to read.
 If 
\family typewriter
sep
\family default
 is NULL (or 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset


\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

), then read from the file in binary mode, otherwise read from the file
 in text mode with 
\family typewriter
sep
\family default
 providing the item separator.
 Some array types cannot be read in text mode in which case an error is
 raised.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromBuffer (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 buf, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 count, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 offset)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Construct a one-dimensional ndarray of a single type from an object, 
\family typewriter
buf
\family default
, that exports the (single-segment) buffer protocol (or has an attribute
 __buffer__ that returns an object that exports the buffer protocol).
 A writeable buffer will be tried first followed by a read-only buffer.
 The NPY_WRITEABLE flag of the returned array will reflect which one was
 successful.
 The data is assumed to start at 
\family typewriter
offset
\family default
 bytes from the start of the memory location for the object.
 The type of the data in the buffer will be interpreted depending on the
 data-type descriptor, 
\family typewriter
dtype.

\family default
 If 
\family typewriter
count
\family default
 is negative then it will be determined from the size of the buffer and
 the requested itemsize, otherwise, 
\family typewriter
count
\family default
 represents how many elements should be converted from the buffer.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CopyInto (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 dest, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 src)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Copy from the source array, 
\family typewriter
src
\family default
, into the destination array, 
\family typewriter
dest
\family default
, performing a data-type conversion if necessary.
 If an error occurs return -1 (otherwise 0).
 The shape of 
\family typewriter
src
\family default
 must be broadcastable to the shape of 
\family typewriter
dest
\family default
.
 The data areas of dest and src must not overlap.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MoveInto (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 dest, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 src)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Move data from the source array, 
\family typewriter
src
\family default
, into the destination array, 
\family typewriter
dest
\family default
, performing a data-type conversion if necessary.
 If an error occurs return -1 (otherwise 0).
 The shape of 
\family typewriter
src
\family default
 must be broadcastable to the shape of 
\family typewriter
dest
\family default
.
 The data areas of dest and src may overlap.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GETCONTIGUOUS (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 If 
\family typewriter
op
\family default
 is already (C-style) contiguous and well-behaved then just return a reference,
 otherwise return a (contiguous and well-behaved) copy of the array.
 The parameter op must be a (sub-class of an) ndarray and no checking for
 that is done.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FROM_O (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert 
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
 to an ndarray.
 The argument can be any nested sequence or object that exports the array
 interface.
 This is a macro form of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
 using 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, 0, 0, 0 for the other arguments.
 Your code must be able to handle any data-type descriptor and any combination
 of data-flags to use this macro.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FROM_OF (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 requirements) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Similar to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FROM_O
\family default
 except it can take an argument of 
\emph on
requirements
\emph default
 indicating properties the resulting array must have.
 Available requirements that can be enforced are 
\family typewriter
NPY_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOTSWAPPED
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ENSURECOPY
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_FORCECAST
\family default
, and 
\family typewriter
NPY_ENSUREARRAY
\family default
.
 Standard combinations of flags can also be used: 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FROM_OT (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Similar to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FROM_O
\family default
 except it can take an argument of 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 specifying the type-number the returned array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FROM_OTF (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 requirements) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Combination of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FROM_OF
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FROM_OT
\family default
 allowing both a 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 and a 
\emph on
flags
\emph default
 argument to be provided..
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FROMANY (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 min, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 max, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 requirements)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Similar to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
 except the data-type is specified using a typenumber.
 
\family typewriter
PyArray_DescrFromType
\family default
(
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
) is passed directly to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
.
 This macro also adds 
\family typewriter
NPY_DEFAULT
\family default
 to requirements if 
\family typewriter
NPY_ENSURECOPY
\family default
 is passed in as requirements.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CheckAxis (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 requirements)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Encapsulate the functionality of functions and methods that take the axis=
 keyword and work properly with None as the axis argument.
 The input array is 
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
, while 
\family typewriter
*axis
\family default
 is a converted integer (so that >=MAXDIMS is the None value), and 
\family typewriter
requirements
\family default
 gives the needed properties of 
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
.
 The output is a converted version of the input so that requirements are
 met and if needed a flattening has occurred.
 On output negative values of 
\family typewriter
*axis
\family default
 are converted and the new value is checked to ensure consistency with the
 shape of 
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Dealing with types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
General check of Python Type
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Check (op) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is a Python object whose type is a sub-type of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CheckExact (op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is a Python object with type 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_HasArrayInterface (op, out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 If 
\family typewriter
op
\family default
 implements any part of the array interface, then 
\family typewriter
out
\family default
 will contain a new reference to the newly created ndarray using the interface
 or 
\family typewriter
out
\family default
 will contain 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 if an error during conversion occurs.
 Otherwise, out will contain a borrowed reference to 
\family typewriter
Py_NotImplemented
\family default
 and no error condition is set.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_HasArrayInterfaceType (op, type, context, out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 If 
\family typewriter
op
\family default
 implements any part of the array interface, then 
\family typewriter
out
\family default
 will contain a new reference to the newly created ndarray using the interface
 or 
\family typewriter
out
\family default
 will contain 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 if an error during conversion occurs.
 Otherwise, out will contain a borrowed reference to Py_NotImplemented and
 no error condition is set.
 This version allows setting of the type and context in the part of the
 array interface that looks for the 
\series bold
__array__
\series default
 attribute.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_IsZeroDim (op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is an instance of (a subclass of) 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
 and has 0 dimensions.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_IsScalar (op, cls)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is an instance of 
\family typewriter
Py<cls>ArrType_Type
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CheckScalar (op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is either an array scalar (an instance of a sub-type of 
\family typewriter
PyGenericArr_Type
\family default
), or an instance of (a sub-class of) 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
 whose dimensionality is 0.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_IsPythonScalar (op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is a builtin Python 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

scalar
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 object (int, float, complex, str, unicode, long, bool).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_IsAnyScalar (op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is either a Python scalar or an array scalar (an instance of a sub-type
 of 
\family typewriter
PyGenericArr_Type
\family default
).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Data-type checking
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
For the typenum macros, the argument is an integer representing an enumerated
 array data type.
 For the array type checking macros the argument must be a 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 that can be directly interpreted as a 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISUNSIGNED (num) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISUNSIGNED (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISUNSIGNED (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents an unsigned integer.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISSIGNED (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISSIGNED (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISSIGNED (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents a signed integer.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISINTEGER (num) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISINTEGER (descr) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISINTEGER (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents any integer.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISFLOAT (num) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISFLOAT (descr) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISFLOAT (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents any floating point number.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISCOMPLEX (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISCOMPLEX (descr) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISCOMPLEX (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents any complex floating point number.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISNUMBER (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISNUMBER (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISNUMBER (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents any integer, floating point, or complex floating point
 number.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISSTRING (num) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISSTRING (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISSTRING (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents a string data type.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISPYTHON (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISPYTHON (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISPYTHON (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents an enumerated type corresponding to one of the standard
 Python scalar (bool, int, float, or complex).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISFLEXIBLE (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISFLEXIBLE (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISFLEXIBLE (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents one of the flexible array types (
\family typewriter
NPY_STRING
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UNICODE
\family default
, or 
\family typewriter
NPY_VOID
\family default
).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISUSERDEF (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISUSERDEF (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISUSERDEF (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents a user-defined type.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISEXTENDED (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISEXTENDED (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISEXTENDED (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type is either flexible or user-defined.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISOBJECT (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISOBJECT (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISOBJECT (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents object data type.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyTypeNum_ISBOOL (num)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_ISBOOL (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISBOOL (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type represents Boolean data type.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataType_HASFIELDS (descr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_HASFIELDS (obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type has fields associated with it.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISNOTSWAPPED (m)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of the ndarray 
\emph on
m
\emph default
 is in machine byte-order according to the array's data-type descriptor.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISBYTESWAPPED (m)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of the ndarray 
\emph on
m
\emph default
 is 
\series bold
not
\series default
 in machine byte-order according to the array's data-type descriptor.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_EquivTypes (
\family typewriter
Bool
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 type1, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 type2)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return 
\family typewriter
NPY_TRUE
\family default
 if 
\emph on
type1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
type2
\emph default
 actually represent equivalent types for this platform (the fortran member
 of each type is ignored).
 For example, on 32-bit platforms, 
\family typewriter
NPY_LONG
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
NPY_INT
\family default
 are equivalent.
 Otherwise return 
\family typewriter
NPY_FALSE
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_EquivArrTypes (
\family typewriter
Bool
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 a1, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject
\family default
* a2)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return 
\family typewriter
NPY_TRUE
\family default
 if 
\emph on
a1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
a2
\emph default
 are arrays with equivalent types for this platform.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_EquivTypenums (
\family typewriter
Bool
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum1, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum2)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Special case of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_EquivTypes
\family default
(...) that does not accept flexible data types but may be easier to call.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_EquivByteorders (int) (<byteorder> b1, <byteorder> b2)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 True if byteorder characters (
\family typewriter
NPY_LITTLE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_BIG
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_NATIVE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_IGNORE
\family default
) are either equal or equivalent as to their specification of a native byte
 order.
 Thus, on a little-endian machine 
\family typewriter
NPY_LITTLE
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
NPY_NATIVE
\family default
 are equivalent where they are not equivalent on a big-endian machine.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Converting data types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Cast (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Mainly for backwards compatibility to the Numeric C-API and for simple
 casts to non-flexible types.
 Return a new array object with the elements of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 cast to the data-type 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 which must be one of the enumerated types and not a flexible type.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CastToType (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 type, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 fortran)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return a new array of the 
\emph on
type
\emph default
 specified, casting the elements of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 as appropriate.
 The fortran argument specifies the ordering of the output array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CastTo (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 in)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Cast the elements of the array 
\emph on
in
\emph default
 into the array 
\emph on
out
\emph default
.
 The output array should be writeable, have an integer-multiple of the number
 of elements in the input array (more than one copy can be placed in out),
 and have a data type that is one of the builtin types.
 Returns 0 on success and -1 if an error occurs.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GetCastFunc (
\family typewriter
PyArray_VectorUnaryFunc*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 from, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 totype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the low-level casting function to cast from the given descriptor
 to the builtin type number.
 If no casting function exists return 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 and set an error.
 Using this function instead of direct access to 
\emph on
from
\emph default
->f->cast will allow support of any user-defined casting functions added
 to a descriptors casting dictionary.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CanCastSafely (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 fromtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 totype) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns non-zero if an array of data type 
\emph on
fromtype
\emph default
 can be cast to an array of data type 
\emph on
totype
\emph default
 without losing information.
 An exception is that 64-bit integers are allowed to be cast to 64-bit floating
 point values even though this can lose precision on large integers so as
 not to proliferate the use of long doubles without explict requests.
 Flexible array types are not checked according to their lengths with this
 function.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CanCastTo (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 fromtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 totype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns non-zero if an array of data type 
\emph on
fromtype
\emph default
 (which can include flexible types) can be cast safely to an array of data
 type 
\emph on
totype
\emph default
 (which can include flexible types).
 This is basically a wrapper around 
\family typewriter
PyArray_CanCastSafely
\family default
 with additional support for size checking if 
\emph on
fromtype
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
totype
\emph default
 are 
\family typewriter
NPY_STRING
\family default
 or 
\family typewriter
NPY_UNICODE
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ObjectType (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 mintype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function is useful for determining a common type that two or more
 arrays can be converted to.
 It only works for non-flexible array types as no itemsize information is
 passed.
 The 
\emph on
mintype
\emph default
 argument represents the minimum type acceptable, and 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 represents the object that will be converted to an array.
 The return value is the enumerated typenumber that represents the data-type
 that 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 should have.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ArrayType (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 mintype, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 outtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function works similarly to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ObjectType
\family default
(...) except it handles flexible arrays.
 The 
\emph on
mintype
\emph default
 argument can have an itemsize member and the 
\emph on
outtype
\emph default
 argument will have an itemsize member at least as big but perhaps bigger
 depending on the object 
\emph on
op
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ConvertToCommonType (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject**
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 n)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert a sequence of Python objects contained in 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 to an array of ndarrays each having the same data type.
 The type is selected based on the typenumber (larger type number is chosen
 over a smaller one) ignoring objects that are only scalars.
 The length of the sequence is returned in 
\emph on
n
\emph default
, and an 
\emph on
n
\emph default
-length array of 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject
\family default
 pointers is the return value (or 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 if an error occurs).
 The returned array must be freed by the caller of this routine (using 
\family typewriter
PyDataMem_FREE
\family default
) and all the array objects in it 
\family typewriter
DECREF
\family default
'd or a memory-leak will occur.
 The example template-code below shows a typically usage.
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
mps = PyArray_ConvertToCommonType(obj, &n);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
if (mps==NULL) return NULL;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
<code>
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
<before return>
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
for (i=0; i<n; i++) Py_DECREF(mps[i]);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
PyDataMem_FREE(mps);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
<return>
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Zero (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to newly created memory of size 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
->itemsize that holds the representation of 0 for that type.
 The returned pointer, 
\emph on
ret
\emph default
, 
\series bold
must be freed
\series default
 using 
\family typewriter
\emph on
PyDataMem_FREE
\family default
\emph default
(ret) when it is not needed anymore.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_One (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to newly created memory of size 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
->itemsize that holds the representation of 1 for that type.
 The returned pointer, 
\emph on
ret
\emph default
, 
\series bold
must be freed
\series default
 using 
\family typewriter
PyDataMem_FREE
\family default
(ret) when it is not needed anymore.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ValidType (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns 
\family typewriter
NPY_TRUE
\family default
 if 
\family typewriter
\emph on
typenum
\family default
\emph default
 represents a valid type-number (builtin or user-defined or character code).
 Otherwise, this function returns 
\family typewriter
NPY_FALSE
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
New data types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_InitArrFuncs (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_ArrFuncs*
\family default
 f)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Initialize all function pointers and members to 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_RegisterDataType (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Register a data-type as a new user-defined data type for arrays.
 The type must have most of its entries filled in.
 This is not always checked and errors can produce segfaults.
 In particular, the typeobj member of the 
\family typewriter
dtype
\family default
 structure must be filled with a Python type that has a fixed-size element-size
 that corresponds to the elsize member of 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
.
 Also the 
\family typewriter
f
\family default
 member must have the required functions: nonzero, copyswap, copyswapn,
 getitem, setitem, and cast (some of the cast functions may be 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 if no support is desired).
 To avoid confusion, you should choose a unique character typecode but this
 is not enforced and not relied on internally.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A user-defined type number is returned that uniquely identifies the type.
 A pointer to the new structure can then be obtained from 
\family typewriter
PyArray_DescrFromType
\family default
 using the returned type number.
 A -1 is returned if an error occurs.
 If this 
\family typewriter
\emph on
dtype
\family default
\emph default
 has already been registered (checked only by the address of the pointer),
 then return the previously-assigned type-number.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_RegisterCastFunc (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 descr, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 totype, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_VectorUnaryFunc*
\family default
 castfunc)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Register a low-level casting function, 
\emph on
castfunc
\emph default
, to convert from the data-type, 
\emph on
descr
\emph default
, to the given data-type number, 
\emph on
totype
\emph default
.
 Any old casting function is over-written.
 A 
\family typewriter
0
\family default
 is returned on success or a 
\family typewriter
-1
\family default
 on failure.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_RegisterCanCast (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 descr, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 totype, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_SCALARKIND
\family default
 scalar)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Register the data-type number, 
\emph on
totype
\emph default
, as castable from data-type object, 
\emph on
descr
\emph default
, of the given 
\emph on
scalar
\emph default
 kind.
 Use 
\emph on
scalar
\emph default
 = 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOSCALAR
\family default
 to register that an array of data-type 
\emph on
descr
\emph default
 can be cast safely to a data-type whose type_number is 
\emph on
totype
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Special functions for PyArray_OBJECT
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_INCREF (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Used for an array, 
\emph on
op
\emph default
, that contains any Python objects.
 It increments the reference count of every object in the array according
 to the data-type of 
\emph on
op
\emph default
.
 A -1 is returned if an error occurs, otherwise 0 is returned.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Item_INCREF (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 ptr, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A function to INCREF all the objects at the location 
\emph on
ptr
\emph default
 according to the data-type 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
ptr
\emph default
 is the start of a record with an object at any offset, then this will (recursiv
ely) increment the reference count of all object-like items in the record.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_XDECREF (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Used for an array, 
\emph on
op
\emph default
, that contains any Python objects.
 It decrements the reference count of every object in the array according
 to the data-type of 
\emph on
op
\emph default
.
 Normal return value is 0.
 A -1 is returned if an error occurs.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Item_XDECREF (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 ptr, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A function to XDECREF all the object-like items at the loacation 
\emph on
ptr
\emph default
 as recorded in the data-type, 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
.
 This works recursively so that if 
\family typewriter
dtype
\family default
 itself has fields with data-types that contain object-like items, all the
 object-like fields will be XDECREF
\family typewriter
'd
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FillObjectArray (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Fill a newly created array with a single value obj at all locations in
 the structure with object data-types.
 No checking is performed but 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 must be of data-type 
\family typewriter
PyArray_OBJECT
\family default
 and be single-segment and uninitialized (no previous objects in position).
 Use 
\family typewriter
PyArray_DECREF
\family default
(
\emph on
arr
\emph default
) if you need to decrement all the items in the object array prior to calling
 this function.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Array flags
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Basic Array Flags
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
An ndarray can have a data segment that is not a simple contiguous chunk
 of well-behaved memory you can manipulate.
 It may not be aligned with word boundaries (very important on some platforms).
 It might have its data in a different byte-order than the machine recognizes.
 It might not be writeable.
 It might be in Fortan-contiguous order.
 The array flags are used to indicate what can be said about data associated
 with an array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS The data area is in C-style contiguous order (last index
 varies the fastest).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS The data area is in Fortran-style contiguous order (first
 index varies the fastest).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_OWNDATA The data area is owned by this array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ALIGNED The data area is aligned appropriately (for all strides).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_WRITEABLE The data area can be written to.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Notice that the above 3 flags are are defined so that a new, well-behaved
 array has these flags defined as true.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY The data area represents a (well-behaved) copy whose informatio
n should be transferred back to the original when this array is deleted.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Combinations of array flags
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_BEHAVED 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_CARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_BEHAVED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_CARRAY_RO 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_FARRAY 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_BEHAVED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_FARRAY_RO 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_DEFAULT 
\family typewriter
NPY_CARRAY
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_UPDATE_ALL 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Flag-like constants 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
These constants are used in PyArray_FromAny (and its macro forms) to specify
 desired properties of the new array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_FORCECAST Cast to the desired type, even if it can't be done without
 losing information.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ENSURECOPY Make sure the resulting array is a copy of the original.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ENSUREARRAY Make sure the resulting object is an actual ndarray (or
 bigndarray), and not a sub-class.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_NOTSWAPPED Only used in 
\family typewriter
PyArray_CheckFromAny
\family default
 to over-ride the byteorder of the data-type object passed in.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_BEHAVED_NS 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 | 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOTSWAPPED
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Flag checking
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
For all of these macros 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 must be an instance of a (subclass of) 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
, but no checking is done.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CHKFLAGS (arr, flags)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 The first parameter, arr, must be an ndarray or subclass.
 The parameter, 
\emph on
flags
\emph default
, should be an integer consisting of bitwise combinations of the possible
 flags an array can have: 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_OWNDATA
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISCONTIGUOUS (arr) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is C-style contiguous.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISFORTRAN (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is Fortran-style contiguous.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISWRITEABLE (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 can be written to
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISALIGNED (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is properly aligned on the machine.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISBEHAVED (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evalutes true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is aligned and writeable and in machine byte-order according to its descriptor.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISBEHAVED_RO (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is aligned and in machine byte-order.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISCARRAY (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is C-style contiguous, and 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ISBEHAVED
\family default
(
\emph on
arr
\emph default
) is true.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISFARRAY (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is Fortran-style contiguous and 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ISBEHAVED
\family default
(
\emph on
arr
\emph default
) is true.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISCARRAY_RO (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is C-style contiguous, aligned, and in machine byte-order.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISFARRAY_RO (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is Fortran-style contiguous, aligned, and in machine byte-order
\series bold
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ISONESEGMENT (arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if the data area of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 consists of a single (C-style or Fortran-style) contiguous segment.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_UpdateFlags (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 flagmask)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 The 
\family typewriter
NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALIGNED
\family default
, and 
\family typewriter
NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS
\family default
 array flags can be 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

calculated
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 from the array object itself.
 This routine updates one or more of these flags of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 as specified in 
\emph on
flagmask
\emph default
 by performing the required calculation.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Warning
It is important to keep the flags updated (using PyArray_UpdateFlags can
 help) whenever a manipulation with an array is performed that might cause
 them to change.
 Later calculations in NumPy that rely on the state of these flags do not
 repeat the calculation to update them.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Array method alternative API
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Conversion
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GetField (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 offset)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
getfield
\series default
(
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
, 
\emph on
offset
\emph default
).
 Return a new array of the given 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 using the data in the current array at a specified 
\emph on
offset
\emph default
 in bytes.
 The 
\emph on
offset
\emph default
 plus the itemsize of the new array type must be less than 
\emph on
self
\emph default
->descr->elsize or an error is raised.
 The same shape and strides as the original array are used.
 Therefore, this function has the effect of returning a field from a record
 array.
 But, it can also be used to select specific bytes or groups of bytes from
 any array type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SetField (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 offset, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 val)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
setfield
\series default
(
\emph on
val
\emph default
, 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
, 
\emph on
offset
\emph default
).
 Set the field starting at 
\emph on
offset
\emph default
 in bytes and of the given 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 to 
\emph on
val
\emph default
.
 The 
\emph on
offset
\emph default
 plus 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
->elsize must be less than 
\emph on
self
\emph default
->descr->elsize or an error is raised.
 Otherwise, the 
\emph on
val
\emph default
 argument is converted to an array and copied into the field pointed to.
 If necessary, the elements of 
\emph on
val
\emph default
 are repeated to fill the destination array, But, the number of elements
 in the destination must be an integer multiple of the number of elements
 in 
\emph on
val
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Byteswap (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
Bool
\family default
 inplace)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
byteswap
\series default
(
\emph on
inplace
\emph default
).
 Return an array whose data area is byteswapped.
 If 
\emph on
inplace
\emph default
 is non-zero, then do the byteswap inplace and return a reference to self.
 Otherwise, create a byteswapped copy and leave self unchanged.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_NewCopy (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 old, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ORDER
\family default
 order)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
copy
\series default
(
\emph on
fortran
\emph default
).
 Make a copy of the 
\emph on
old
\emph default
 array.
 The returned array is always aligned and writeable with data interpreted
 the same as the old array.
 If 
\emph on
order
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NPY_CORDER
\family default
, then a C-style contiguous array is returned.
 If 
\emph on
order
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NPY_FORTRANORDER
\family default
, then a Fortran-style contiguous array is returned.
 If 
\emph on
order is
\emph default
 
\family typewriter
NPY_ANYORDER
\family default
, then the array returned is Fortran-style contiguous only if the old one
 is; otherwise, it is C-style contiguous.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ToList (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
tolist
\series default
().
 Return a nested Python list from 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ToString (PyObject*) (PyArrayObject* self, NPY_ORDER order)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
tostring
\series default
(
\emph on
order
\emph default
).
 Return the bytes of this array in a Python string.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ToFile (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
FILE*
\family default
 fp, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 sep, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 format)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Write the contents of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 to the file pointer 
\emph on
fp
\emph default
 in C-style contiguous fashion.
 Write the data as binary bytes if 
\family typewriter
\emph on
sep
\family default
\emph default
 is the string 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset


\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 or 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
.
 Otherwise, write the contents of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 as text using the 
\family typewriter
\emph on
sep
\family default
\emph default
 string as the item separator.
 Each item will be printed to the file.
 If the 
\emph on
format
\emph default
 string is not 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 or 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset


\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

, then it is a Python print statement format string showing how the items
 are to be written.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Dump (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 file, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 protocol)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Pickle the object in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 to the given 
\emph on
file
\emph default
 (either a string or a Python file object).
 If 
\emph on
file
\emph default
 is a Python string it is considered to be the name of a file which is then
 opened in binary mode.
 The given 
\emph on
protocol
\emph default
 is used (if 
\emph on
protocol
\emph default
 is negative, or the highest available is used).
 This is a simple wrapper around cPickle.dump(
\emph on
self
\emph default
, 
\emph on
file
\emph default
, 
\emph on
protocol
\emph default
).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Dumps (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 protocol)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Pickle the object in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 to a Python string and return it.
 Use the Pickle 
\emph on
protocol
\emph default
 provided (or the highest available if 
\emph on
protocol
\emph default
 is negative).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FillWithScalar (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Fill the array, 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
, with the given scalar object, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
.
 The object is first converted to the data type of 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
, and then copied into every location.
 A -1 is returned if an error occurs, otherwise 0 is returned.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_View (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
view
\series default
(
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
).
 Return a new view of the array 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 as possibly a different data-type, 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, then the returned array will have the same data type as 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
 The new data-type must be consistent with the size of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
 Either the itemsizes must be identical, or 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 must be single-segment and the total number of bytes must be the same.
 In the latter case the dimensions of the returned array will be altered
 in the last (or first for Fortran-style contiguous arrays) dimension.
 The data area of the returned array and self is exactly the same.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Shape Manipulation
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Newshape (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Dims*
\family default
 newshape)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Result will be a new array (pointing to the same memory location as 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 if possible), but having a shape given by 
\emph on
newshape
\emph default
.
 If the new shape is not compatible with the strides of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
, then a copy of the array with the new specified shape will be returned.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Reshape (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 shape)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\family typewriter
\emph on
self
\family default
\emph default
.
\series bold
reshape
\series default
(
\family typewriter
\emph on
shape
\family default
\emph default
) where 
\emph on
shape
\emph default
 is a sequence.
 Converts 
\emph on
shape
\emph default
 to a 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Dims
\family default
 structure and calls 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Newshape
\family default
 internally.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Squeeze (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
squeeze
\series default
().
 Return a new view of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 with all of the dimensions of length 1 removed from the shape.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Warning
matrix objects are always 2-dimensional.
 Therefore, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Squeeze
\family default
 has no effect on arrays of matrix sub-class.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SwapAxes (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 a1, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 a2)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
swapaxes
\series default
(
\emph on
a1
\emph default
, 
\emph on
a2
\emph default
).
 The returned array is a new view of the data in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 with the given axes, 
\emph on
a1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
a2
\emph default
, swapped.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Resize (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Dims*
\family default
 newshape, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 refcheck, NPY_ORDER fortran)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
resize
\series default
(
\emph on
newshape
\emph default
, refcheck
\family typewriter
=
\family default
\emph on
refcheck
\emph default
, order=
\shape italic
fortran
\shape default
).
 This function only works on single-segment arrays.
 It changes the shape of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 inplace and will reallocate the memory for 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 if 
\emph on
newshape
\emph default
 has a different total number of elements then the old shape.
 If reallocation is necessary, then 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 must own its data, have 
\emph on
self
\emph default
-
\family typewriter
>base==NULL
\family default
, have 
\emph on
self
\emph default
-
\family typewriter
>weakrefs==NULL
\family default
, and (unless refcheck is 0) not be referenced by any other array.
 A reference to the new array is returned.
 The 
\shape italic
fortran
\shape default
 argument can be NPY_ANYORDER, NPY_CORDER, or NPY_FORTRANORDER.
 This argument is used if the number of dimension is (or is being resized
 to be) greater than 2.
 It currently has no effect.
 Eventually it could be used to determine how the resize operation should
 view the data when constructing a differently-dimensioned array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Transpose (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Dims*
\family default
 permute)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
transpose
\series default
(
\emph on
permute
\emph default
).
 Permute the axes of the ndarray object 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 according to the data structure 
\emph on
permute
\emph default
 and return the result.
 If 
\emph on
permute
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, then the resulting array has its axes reversed.
 For example if 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 has shape 
\begin_inset Formula $10\times20\times30$
\end_inset

, and 
\emph on
permute
\family typewriter
\emph default
.ptr
\family default
 is (0,2,1) the shape of the result is 
\begin_inset Formula $10\times30\times20.$
\end_inset

 If 
\emph on
permute
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, the shape of the result is 
\begin_inset Formula $30\times20\times10.$
\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Flatten (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ORDER
\family default
 order)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
flatten
\series default
(
\emph on
order
\emph default
).
 Return a 1-d copy of the array.
 If 
\emph on
order
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NPY_FORTRANORDER
\family default
 the elements are scanned out in Fortran order (first-dimension varies the
 fastest).
 If 
\emph on
order
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NPY_CORDER
\family default
, the elements of 
\family typewriter
self
\family default
 are scanned in C-order (last dimension varies the fastest).
 If 
\emph on
order
\emph default
 
\family typewriter
NPY_ANYORDER
\family default
, then the result of 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ISFORTRAN
\family default
(
\emph on
self
\emph default
) is used to determine which order to flatten.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Ravel (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ORDER
\family default
 order)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.ravel(
\emph on
order
\emph default
).
 Same basic functionality as 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Flatten
\family default
(
\emph on
self
\emph default
, 
\emph on
order
\emph default
) except if 
\emph on
order
\emph default
 is 0 and 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 is C-style contiguous, the shape is altered but no copy is performed.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Item selection and manipulation
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_TakeFrom (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 indices, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 ret, 
\family typewriter
NPY_CLIPMODE
\family default
 clipmode)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
take
\series default
(
\emph on
indices
\emph default
, 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
, 
\emph on
ret
\emph default
, 
\emph on
clipmode
\emph default
) except 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
=None in Python is obtained by setting 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
=
\family typewriter
NPY_MAXDIMS
\family default
 in C.
 Extract the items from self indicated by the integer-valued 
\emph on
indices
\emph default
 along the given 
\emph on
axis.

\emph default
 The clipmode argument can be 
\family typewriter
NPY_RAISE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRAP
\family default
, or 
\family typewriter
NPY_CLIP
\family default
 to indicate what to do with out-of-bound indices.
 The 
\emph on
ret
\emph default
 argument can specify an output array rather than having one created internally.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_PutTo (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 values, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 indices, 
\family typewriter
NPY_CLIPMODE
\family default
 clipmode)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.put(
\emph on
values
\emph default
, 
\emph on
indices
\emph default
, 
\emph on
clipmode
\emph default
).
 Put 
\emph on
values
\emph default
 into 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 at the corresponding (flattened) 
\emph on
indices
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
values
\emph default
 is too small it will be repeated as necessary.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_PutMask (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 values, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 mask)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Place the 
\emph on
values
\emph default
 in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 wherever corresponding positions (using a flattened context) in 
\emph on
mask
\emph default
 are true.
 The 
\emph on
mask
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 arrays must have the same total number of elements.
 If 
\emph on
values
\emph default
 is too small, it will be repeated as necessary.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Repeat (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
repeat
\series default
(
\emph on
op
\emph default
, 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Copy the elements of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
, 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 times along the given 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
 Either 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is a scalar integer or a sequence of length 
\emph on
self
\emph default
->dimensions[
\emph on
axis
\emph default
] indicating how many times to repeat each item along the axis.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Choose (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 ret, 
\family typewriter
NPY_CLIPMODE
\family default
 clipmode)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
choose
\series default
(
\emph on
op
\emph default
, 
\emph on
ret
\emph default
, 
\emph on
clipmode
\emph default
).
 Create a new array by selecting elements from the sequence of arrays in
 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 based on the integer values in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
 The arrays must all be broadcastable to the same shape and the entries
 in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 should be between 0 and len(
\emph on
op
\emph default
).
 The output is placed in 
\emph on
ret
\emph default
 unless it is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 in which case a new output is created.
 The 
\emph on
clipmode
\emph default
 argument determines behavior for when entries in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 are not between 0 and len(
\emph on
op
\emph default
).
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
NPY_RAISE raise a ValueError;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_WRAP wrap values <0 by adding len(
\emph on
op
\emph default
) and values >=len(
\emph on
op
\emph default
) by subtracting len(
\emph on
op
\emph default
) until they are in range;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_CLIP all values are clipped to the region [0, len(
\emph on
op
\emph default
) ).
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Sort (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
sort
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return an array with the items of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 sorted along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ArgSort (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
argsort
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return an array of indices such that selection of these indices along the
 given 
\family typewriter
axis
\family default
 would return a sorted version of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
self
\emph default
->descr is a data-type with fields defined, then self->descr->names is used
 to determine the sort order.
 A comparison where the first field is equal will use the second field and
 so on.
 To alter the sort order of a record array, create a new data-type with
 a different order of names and construct a view of the array with that
 new data-type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_LexSort (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 sort_keys, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Given a sequence of arrays (
\emph on
sort_keys
\emph default
) of the same shape, return an array of indices (similar to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ArgSort
\family default
(...)) that would sort the arrays lexicographically.
 A lexicographic sort specifies that when two keys are found to be equal,
 the order is based on comparison of subsequent keys.
 A merge sort (which leaves equal entries unmoved) is required to be defined
 for the types.
 The sort is accomplished by sorting the indices first using the first 
\emph on
sort_key
\emph default
 and then using the second 
\emph on
sort_key
\emph default
 and so forth.
 This is equivalent to the lexsort(
\emph on
sort_keys
\emph default
, 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
) Python command.
 Because of the way the merge-sort works, be sure to understand the order
 the 
\emph on
sort_keys
\emph default
 must be in (reversed from the order you would use when comparing two elements).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 If these arrays are all collected in a record array, then 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Sort
\family default
(...) can also be used to sort the array directly.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SearchSorted (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 values) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
searchsorted
\series default
(
\emph on
values
\emph default
).
 Assuming 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 is a 1-d array in ascending order representing bin boundaries then the
 output is an array the same shape as 
\emph on
values
\emph default
 of bin numbers, giving the bin into which each item in 
\emph on
values
\emph default
 would be placed.
 No checking is done on whether or not self is in ascending order.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Diagonal (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 offset, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis1, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis2)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
diagonal
\series default
(
\emph on
offset
\emph default
, 
\emph on
axis1
\emph default
, 
\emph on
axis2
\emph default
).
 Return the 
\emph on
offset
\emph default
 diagonals of the 2-d arrays defined by 
\emph on
axis1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
axis2
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Nonzero (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
nonzero
\series default
().
 Returns a tuple of index arrays that select elements of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 that are nonzero.
 If (nd=
\family typewriter
PyArray_NDIM
\family default
(
\family typewriter
self
\family default
))==1, then a single index array is returned.
 The index arrays have data type 
\family typewriter
NPY_INTP
\family default
.
 If a tuple is returned (nd
\begin_inset Formula $\neq$
\end_inset

1), then its length is nd.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Compress (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 condition, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
compress
\series default
(
\emph on
condition
\emph default
, 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return the elements along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
 corresponding to elements of 
\emph on
condition
\emph default
 that are true.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Calculation
\end_layout

\begin_layout Tip
Pass in NPY_MAXDIMS for axis in order to achieve the same effect that is
 obtained by passing in axis = None in Python (treating the array as a 1-d
 array).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ArgMax (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
argmax
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return the index of the largest element of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ArgMin (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
argmin
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return the index of the smallest element of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Max (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
max
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return the largest element of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along the given 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Min (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
min
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return the smallest element of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along the given 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Ptp (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
ptp
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return the difference between the largest element of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
 and the smallest element of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Note
The rtype argument specifies the data-type the reduction should take place
 over.
 This is important if the data-type of the array is not 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

large
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 enough to handle the output.
 By default, all integer data-types are made at least as large as NPY_LONG
 for the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

add
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 and 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

multiply
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 ufuncs (which form the basis for mean, sum, cumsum, prod, and cumprod functions
).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Mean (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 rtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
mean
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
, 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
).
 Returns the mean of the elements along the given 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
, using the enumerated type 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
 as the data type to sum in.
 Default sum behavior is obtained using 
\family typewriter
PyArray_NOTYPE
\family default
 for 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Trace (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 offset, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis1, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis2, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 rtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
trace
\series default
(
\emph on
offset
\emph default
, 
\emph on
axis1
\emph default
, 
\emph on
axis2
\emph default
, 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
).
 Return the sum (using 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
 as the data type of summation) over the 
\emph on
offset
\emph default
 diagonal elements of the 2-d arrays defined by 
\emph on
axis1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
axis2
\emph default
 variables.
 A positive offset chooses diagonals above the main diagonal.
 A negative offset selects diagonals below the main diagonal.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Clip (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 min, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 max)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
clip
\series default
(
\emph on
min
\emph default
, 
\emph on
max
\emph default
).
 Clip an array, 
\emph on
self
\emph default
, so that values larger than 
\emph on
max
\emph default
 are fixed to 
\emph on
max
\emph default
 and values less than 
\emph on
min
\emph default
 are fixed to 
\emph on
min
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Conjugate (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
conjugate
\series default
() and 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
conj
\series default
() Return the complex conjugate of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 is not of complex data type, then return 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 with an reference.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Round (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 decimals, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
round
\series default
(
\emph on
decimals
\emph default
, 
\emph on
out
\emph default
).
 Returns the array with elements rounded to the nearest decimal place.
 The decimal place is defined as the 
\begin_inset Formula $10^{-\textrm{decimals}}$
\end_inset

 digit so that negative 
\emph on
decimals
\emph default
 cause rounding to the nearest 10's, 100's, etc.
 If out is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, then the output array is created, otherwise the output is placed in 
\family typewriter
\emph on
out
\family default
\emph default
 which must be the correct size and type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Std (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 rtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
std
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
, 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
).
 Return the standard deviation using data along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
 converted to data type 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Sum (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 rtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
sum
\series default
(
\family typewriter
\emph on
axis
\family default
\emph default
, 
\family typewriter
\emph on
rtype
\family default
\emph default
).
 Return 1-d vector sums of elements in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
 Perform the sum after converting data to data type 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CumSum (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 rtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
cumsum
\series default
(
\family typewriter
\emph on
axis
\family default
\emph default
, 
\family typewriter
\emph on
rtype
\family default
\emph default
).
 Return cumulative 1-d sums of elements in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
 Perform the sum after converting data to data type 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Prod (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 rtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
prod
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
, 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
).
 Return 1-d products of elements in 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
.
 Perform the product after converting data to data type 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CumProd (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 rtype, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
cumprod
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
, 
\emph on
rtype
\emph default
).
 Return 1-d cumulative products of elements in 
\family typewriter
self
\family default
 along 
\family typewriter
axis
\family default
.
 Perform the product after converting data to data type 
\family typewriter
rtype
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_All (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
all
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return an array with True elements for every 1-d sub-array of 
\family typewriter
self
\family default
 defined by 
\family typewriter
axis
\family default
 in which all the elements are True.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Any (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 out)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Equivalent to 
\emph on
self
\emph default
.
\series bold
any
\series default
(
\emph on
axis
\emph default
).
 Return an array with True elements for every 1-d sub-array of 
\emph on
self
\emph default
 defined by 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
 in which any of the elements are True.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Functions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Array Functions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_AsCArray (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject**
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 ptr, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 itemsize)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Sometimes it is useful to access a multidimensional array as a C-style
 multi-dimensional array so that algorithms can be implemented using C's
 a[i][j][k] syntax.
 This routine returns a pointer, 
\emph on
ptr
\emph default
, that simulates this kind of C-style array, for 1-, 2-, and 3-d ndarrays.
 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
op The address to any Python object.
 This Python object will be replaced with an equivalent well-behaved, C-style
 contiguous, ndarray of the given data type specifice by the last two arguments.
 Be sure that stealing a reference in this way to the input object is justified.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ptr The address to a (ctype* for 1-d, ctype** for 2-d or ctype*** for 3-d)
 variable where ctype is the equivalent C-type for the data type.
 On return, 
\emph on
ptr
\emph default
 will be addressable as a 1-d, 2-d, or 3-d array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
dims An output array that contains the shape of the array object.
 This array gives boundaries on any looping that will take place.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nd The dimensionality of the array (1, 2, or 3).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
typenum The expected data type of the array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
itemsize This argument is only needed when 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 represents a flexible array.
 Otherwise it should be 0.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Note
The simulation of a C-style array is not complete for 2-d and 3-d arrays.
 For example, the simulated arrays of pointers cannot be passed to subroutines
 expecting specific, statically-defined 2-d and 3-d arrays.
 To pass to functions requiring those kind of inputs, you must statically
 define the required array and copy data.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Free (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 ptr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Must be called with the same objects and memory locations returned from
 
\family typewriter
PyArray_AsCArray
\family default
(...).
 This function cleans up memory that otherwise would get leaked.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Concatenate (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 axis)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Join the sequence of objects in 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 together along 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
 into a single array.
 If the dimensions or types are not compatible an error is raised.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_InnerProduct (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj1, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj2)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Compute a product-sum over the last dimensions of 
\emph on
obj1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
obj2
\emph default
.
 Neither array is conjugated.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MatrixProduct (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj1, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Compute a product-sum over the last dimension of 
\emph on
obj1
\emph default
 and the second-to-last dimension of 
\emph on
obj2
\emph default
.
 For 2-d arrays this is a matrix-product.
 Neither array is conjugated.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CopyAndTranspose (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject
\family default
* op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A specialized copy and transpose function that works only for 2-d arrays.
 The returned array is a transposed copy of 
\emph on
op
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Correlate (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op1, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op2, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 mode)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Compute the 1-d correlation of the 1-d arrays 
\emph on
op1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
op2
\emph default
.
 The correlation is computed at each output point by multiplying 
\emph on
op1
\emph default
 by a shifted version of 
\emph on
op2
\emph default
 and summing the result.
 As a result of the shift, needed values outside of the defined range of
 
\emph on
op1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
op2
\emph default
 are interpreted as zero.
 The mode determines how many shifts to return: 0 - return only shifts that
 did not need to assume zero-values; 1 - return an object that is the same
 size as 
\emph on
op1
\emph default
, 2 - return all possible shifts (any overlap at all is accepted).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Where (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 condition, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 x, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 y)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 If both 
\family typewriter
x
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
y
\family default
 are 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, then return 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Nonzero
\family default
(
\family typewriter
\emph on
condition
\family default
\emph default
).
 Otherwise, both 
\emph on
x
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
y
\emph default
 must be given and the object returned is shaped like 
\emph on
condition
\emph default
 and has elements of 
\emph on
x
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
y
\emph default
 where 
\emph on
condition
\emph default
 is respectively True or False.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Other functions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CheckStrides (
\family typewriter
Bool
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 elsize, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 numbytes, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 newstrides)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Determine if 
\emph on
newstrides
\emph default
 is a strides array consistent with the memory of an 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
-dimensional array with shape 
\family typewriter
dims
\family default
 and element-size, 
\emph on
elsize
\emph default
.
 The 
\emph on
newstrides
\emph default
 array is checked to see if jumping by the provided number of bytes in each
 direction will ever mean jumping more than 
\emph on
numbytes
\emph default
 which is the assumed size of the available memory segment.
 If 
\emph on
numbytes
\emph default
 is 0, then an equivalent 
\emph on
numbytes
\emph default
 is computed assuming 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
, 
\emph on
dims
\emph default
, and 
\emph on
elsize
\emph default
 refer to a single-segment array.
 Return 
\family typewriter
NPY_TRUE
\family default
 if 
\emph on
newstrides
\emph default
 is acceptable, otherwise return 
\family typewriter
NPY_FALSE
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiplyList (
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 seq, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 n)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiplyIntList (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 seq, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 n)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Both of these routines multiply an 
\emph on
n
\emph default
-length array, 
\emph on
seq
\emph default
, of integers and return the result.
 No overflow checking is performed.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CompareLists (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 l1, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 l2, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 n)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Given two 
\emph on
n
\emph default
-length arrays of integers, 
\emph on
l1
\emph default
, and 
\emph on
l2
\emph default
, return 1 if the lists are identical; otherwise, return 0.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Array Iterators
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
An array iterator is a simple way to access the elements of an N-dimensional
 array quickly and efficiently.
 Section 
\begin_inset LatexCommand ref
reference "sec:array_iterator"

\end_inset

 provides more description and examples of this useful approach to looping
 over an array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_IterNew (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return an array iterator object from the array, 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
.
 This is equivalent to 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
.
\series bold
flat
\series default
.
 The array iterator object makes it easy to loop over an N-dimensional non-conti
guous array in C-style contiguous fashion.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_IterAllButAxis (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 *axis)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return an array iterator that will iterate over all axes but the one provided
 in 
\emph on
*axis
\emph default
.
 The returned iterator cannot be used with 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ITER_GOTO1D
\family default
.
 This iterator could be used to write something similar to what ufuncs do
 wherein the loop over the largest axis is done by a separate sub-routine.
 If 
\emph on
*axis
\emph default
 is negative then 
\emph on
*axis
\emph default
 will be set to the axis having the smallest stride and that axis will be
 used.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_BroadcastToShape (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 arr, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 *dimensions, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return an array iterator that is broadcast to iterate as an array of the
 shape provided by 
\emph on
dimensions
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
nd
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArrayIter_Check (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates true if 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is an array iterator (or instance of a subclass of the array iterator type).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ITER_RESET (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 iterator)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Reset an 
\emph on
iterator
\emph default
 to the beginning of the array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ITER_NEXT (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 iterator)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Incremement the index and the dataptr members of the 
\emph on
iterator
\emph default
 to point to the next element of the array.
 If the array is not (C-style) contiguous, also increment the N-dimensional
 coordinates array.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ITER_DATA (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 iterator)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A pointer to the current element of the array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ITER_GOTO (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 iterator, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 destination)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Set the 
\emph on
iterator
\emph default
 index, dataptr, and coordinates members to the location in the array indicated
 by the N-dimensional c-array, 
\emph on
destination
\emph default
, which must have size at least 
\emph on
iterator
\emph default
->nd_m1+1.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ITER_GOTO1D (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 iterator, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 index)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Set the 
\emph on
iterator
\emph default
 index and dataptr to the location in the array indicated by the integer
 
\emph on
index
\emph default
 which points to an element in the C-styled flattened array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ITER_NOTDONE (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 iterator)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates TRUE as long as the iterator has not looped through all of the
 elements, otherwise it evaluates FALSE.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Broadcasting (multi-iterators)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiIterNew (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 num, ...)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A simplified interface to broadcasting.
 This function takes the number of arrays to broadcast and then 
\emph on
num
\emph default
 extra (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) arguments.
 These arguments are converted to arrays and iterators are created.
 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Broadcast
\family default
 is then called on the resulting multi-iterator object.
 The resulting, broadcasted mult-iterator object is then returned.
 A broadcasted operation can then be performed using a single loop and using
 
\family typewriter
PyArray_MultiIter_NEXT
\family default
(..)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiIter_RESET (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 multi)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Reset all the iterators to the beginning in a multi-iterator object, 
\emph on
multi
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiIter_NEXT (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 multi)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Advance each iterator in a multi-iterator object, 
\emph on
multi
\emph default
, to its next (broadcasted) element.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiIter_DATA (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 multi, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 i)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the data-pointer of the 
\emph on
i
\emph default

\begin_inset Formula $^{\textrm{th}}$
\end_inset

 iterator in a multi-iterator object.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiIter_NEXTi (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 multi, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 i)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Advance the pointer of only the 
\emph on
i
\emph default

\begin_inset Formula $^{\textrm{th}}$
\end_inset

 iterator.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiIter_GOTO (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 multi, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 destination)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Advance each iterator in a multi-iterator object, 
\emph on
multi
\emph default
, to the given 
\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

-dimensional 
\emph on
destination
\emph default
 where 
\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

 is the number of dimensions in the broadcasted array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiIter_GOTO1D (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 multi, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 index)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Advance each iterator in a multi-iterator object, 
\emph on
multi
\emph default
, to the corresponding location of the 
\emph on
index
\emph default
 into the flattened broadcasted array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MultiIter_NOTDONE (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 multi)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates TRUE as long as the multi-iterator has not looped through all
 of the elements (of the broadcasted result), otherwise it evaluates FALSE.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Broadcast (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayMultiIterObject*
\family default
 mit) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function encapsulates the broadcasting rules.
 The 
\emph on
mit
\emph default
 container should already contain iterators for all the arrays that need
 to be broadcast.
 On return, these iterators will be adjusted so that iteration over each
 simultaneously will accomplish the broadcasting.
 A negative number is returned if an error occurs.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_RemoveSmallest (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayMultiIterObject*
\family default
 mit)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function takes a multi-iterator object that has been previously 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

broadcasted,
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 finds the dimension with the smallest 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

sum of strides
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 in the broadcasted result and adapts all the iterators so as not to iterate
 over that dimension (by effectively making them of length-1 in that dimension).
 The corresponding dimension is returned unless 
\emph on
mit
\emph default
->nd is 0, then -1 is returned.
 This function is useful for constructing ufunc-like routines that broadcast
 their inputs correctly and then call a strided 1-d version of the routine
 as the inner-loop.
 This 1-d version is usually optimized for speed and for this reason the
 loop should be performed over the axis that won't require large stride
 jumps.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Array Scalars
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Return (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function checks to see if 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is a 0-dimensional array and, if so, returns the appropriate array scalar.
 It should be used whenever 0-dimensional arrays could be returned to Python.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Scalar (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 itemsize)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return an array scalar object of the given enumerated 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
itemsize
\emph default
 by 
\series bold
copying
\series default
 from memory pointed to by 
\emph on
data
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
swap
\emph default
 is nonzero then this function will byteswap the data if appropriate to
 the data-type because array scalars are always in correct machine-byte
 order.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ToScalar (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject*
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return an array scalar object of the type and itemsize indicated by the
 array object 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 copied from the memory pointed to by 
\emph on
data
\emph default
 and swapping if the data in 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is not in machine byte-order.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FromScalar (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 scalar, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 outcode)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return a 0-dimensional array of type determined by 
\emph on
outcode
\emph default
 from 
\emph on
scalar
\emph default
 which should be an array-scalar object.
 If 
\emph on
outcode
\emph default
 is NULL, then the type is determined from 
\family typewriter
\emph on
scalar
\family default
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ScalarAsCtype (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 scalar, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 ctypeptr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return in 
\emph on
ctypeptr
\emph default
 a pointer to the actual value in an array scalar.
 There is no error checking so 
\emph on
scalar
\emph default
 must be an array-scalar object, and ctypeptr must have enough space to
 hold the correct type.
 For flexible-sized types, a pointer to the data is copied into the memory
 of 
\emph on
ctypeptr
\emph default
, for all other types, the actual data is copied into the address pointed
 to by 
\emph on
ctypeptr
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CastScalarToCtype (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 scalar, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 ctypeptr, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 outcode)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the data (cast to the data type indicated by 
\emph on
outcode
\emph default
) from the array-scalar, 
\emph on
scalar
\emph default
, into the memory pointed to by 
\emph on
ctypeptr
\emph default
 (which must be large enough to handle the incoming memory).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_TypeObjectFromType (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 type)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns a scalar type-object from a type-number, 
\emph on
type
\emph default
.
 Equivalent to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_DescrFromType
\family default
(
\emph on
type
\emph default
)->typeobj except for reference counting and error-checking.
 Returns a new reference to the typeobject on success or 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 on failure.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ScalarKind (
\family typewriter
NPY_SCALARKIND
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject**
\family default
 arr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the kind of scalar represented by 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 and the array in 
\emph on
*arr
\emph default
 (if 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is not 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
).
 The array is assumed to be rank-0 and only used if 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 represents a signed integer.
 If 
\emph on
arr
\emph default
 is not 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 and the first element is negative then 
\family typewriter
NPY_INTNEG_SCALAR
\family default
 is returned, otherwise 
\family typewriter
NPY_INTPOS_SCALAR
\family default
 is returned.
 The possible return values are 
\family typewriter
NPY_
\family default
<kind>
\family typewriter
_SCALAR
\family default
 where <kind> can be 
\series bold
INTPOS
\series default
, 
\series bold
INTNEG
\series default
, 
\series bold
FLOAT
\series default
, 
\series bold
COMPLEX
\series default
, 
\series bold
BOOL
\series default
, or 
\series bold
OBJECT
\series default
.
 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOSCALAR
\family default
 is also an enumerated value 
\family typewriter
NPY_SCALARKIND
\family default
 variables can take on.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CanCoerceScalar (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char
\family default
 thistype, 
\family typewriter
char
\family default
 neededtype, 
\family typewriter
NPY_SCALARKIND
\family default
 scalar)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Implements the rules for scalar coercion.
 Scalars are only silently coerced from thistype to neededtype if this function
 returns nonzero.
 If scalar is 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOSCALAR
\family default
, then this function is equivalent to 
\family typewriter
PyArray_CanCastSafely
\family default
.
 The rule is that scalars of the same KIND can be coerced into arrays of
 the same KIND.
 This rule means that high-precision scalars will never cause low-precision
 arrays of the same KIND to be upcast.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Data-type descriptors
\end_layout

\begin_layout Warning
Data-type objects must be reference counted so be aware of the action on
 the data-type reference of different C-API calls.
 The standard rule is that when a data-type object is returned it is a new
 reference.
 Functions that take 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 objects and return arrays steal references to the data-type their inputs
 unless otherwise noted.
 Therefore, you must own a reference to any data-type object used as input
 to such a function.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArrayDescr_Check (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates as true if 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 is a data-type object (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DescrNew (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return a new data-type object copied from 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 (the fields reference is just updated so that the new object points to
 the same fields dictionary if any).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DescrNewFromType (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Create a new data-type object from the built-in (or user-registered) data-type
 indicated by 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
.
 All builtin types should not have any of their fields changed.
 This creates a new copy of the 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr
\family default
 structure so that you can fill it in as appropriate.
 This function is especially needed for flexible data-types which need to
 have a new elsize member in order to be meaningful in array construction.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DescrNewByteorder (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
char
\family default
 newendian)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Create a new data-type object with the byteorder set according to 
\emph on
newendian
\emph default
.
 All referenced data-type objects (in subdescr and fields members of the
 data-type object) are also changed (recursively).
 If a byteorder of 
\family typewriter
NPY_IGNORE
\family default
 is encountered it is left alone.
 If newendian is 
\family typewriter
NPY_SWAP
\family default
, then all byte-orders are swapped.
 Other valid newendian values are 
\family typewriter
NPY_NATIVE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_LITTLE
\family default
, and 
\family typewriter
NPY_BIG
\family default
 which all cause the returned data-typed descriptor (and all it's referenced
 data-type descriptors) to have the corresponding byte-order.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DescrFromObject (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 mintype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Determine an appropriate data-type object from the object 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 (which should be a 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

nested
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 sequence object) and the minimum data-type descriptor mintype (which can
 be 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
).
 Similar in behavior to array(
\emph on
op
\emph default
).dtype.
 Don't confuse this function with 
\family typewriter
PyArray_DescrConverter
\family default
.
 This function essentially looks at all the objects in the (nested) sequence
 and determines the data-type from the elements it finds.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DescrFromScalar (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 scalar)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return a data-type object from an array-scalar object.
 No checking is done to be sure that 
\emph on
scalar
\emph default
 is an array scalar.
 If no suitable data-type can be determined, then a data-type of NPY_OBJECT
 is returned by default.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DescrFromType (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns a data-type object corresponding to 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
.
 The 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 can be one of the enumerated types, a character code for one of the enumerated
 types, or a user-defined type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DescrConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr**
\family default
 dtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert any compatible Python object, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, to a data-type object in 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
.
 A large number of Python objects can be converted to data-type objects.
 See Chapter 
\begin_inset LatexCommand ref
reference "cha:Data-descriptor-objects"

\end_inset

 for a complete description.
 This version of the converter converts None objects to a 
\family typewriter
NPY_DEFAULT_TYPE
\family default
 data-type object.
 This function can be used with the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

O&
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 character code in PyArg_ParseTuple processing.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_DescrConverter2 (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr**
\family default
 dtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert any compatible Python object, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, to a data-type object in 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
.
 This version of the converter converts None objects so that the returned
 data-type is 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
.
 This function can also be used with the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

O&
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 character in PyArg_ParseTuple processing.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
Pyarray_DescrAlignConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr**
\family default
 dtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Like 
\family typewriter
PyArray_DescrConverter
\family default
 except it aligns C-struct-like objects on word-boundaries as the compiler
 would.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
Pyarray_DescrAlignConverter2 (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr**
\family default
 dtype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Like 
\family typewriter
PyArray_DescrConverter2
\family default
 except it aligns C-struct-like objects on word-boundaries as the compiler
 would.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FieldNames (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 dict)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Take the fields dictionary, 
\family typewriter
\emph on
dict
\family default
\emph default
, such as the one attached to a data-type object and construct an ordered-list
 of field names such as is stored in the names field of the 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr
\family default
 object.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Conversion Utilities
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
For use with 
\family typewriter
PyArg_ParseTuple
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
All of these functions can be used in 
\family typewriter
PyArg_ParseTuple
\family default
(...) with the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

O&
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 format specifier to automatically convert any Python object to the required
 C-object.
 All of these functions return 
\family typewriter
NPY_SUCCEED
\family default
 if successful and 
\family typewriter
NPY_FAIL
\family default
 if not.
 The first argument to all of these function is a Python object.
 The second argument is the 
\series bold
address
\series default
 of the C-type to convert the Python object to.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Warning
Be sure to understand what steps you should take to manage the memory when
 using these conversion functions.
 These functions can require freeing memory, and/or altering the reference
 counts of specific objects based on your use.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_Converter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
PyObject**
\family default
 address)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert any Python object to a 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject
\family default
.
 If 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Check
\family default
(
\family typewriter
\emph on
obj
\family default
\emph default
) is TRUE then its reference count is incremented and a reference placed
 in 
\emph on
address
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 is not an array, then convert it to an array using 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
.
 No matter what is returned, you must DECREF the object returned by this
 routine in 
\emph on
address
\emph default
 when you are done with it.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_OutputConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject**
\family default
 address)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This is a default converter for output arrays given to functions.
 If 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
Py_None
\family default
 or 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
, then 
\emph on
*address
\emph default
 will be 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 but the call will succeed.
 If 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Check
\family default
(
\emph on
obj
\emph default
) is TRUE then it is returned in 
\emph on
*address
\emph default
 without incrementing its reference count.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_IntpConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Dims*
\family default
 seq)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert any Python sequence, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, smaller than 
\family typewriter
NPY_MAXDIMS
\family default
 to a C-array of 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
.
 The Python object could also be a single number.
 The 
\emph on
seq
\emph default
 variable is a pointer to a structure with members ptr and len.
 On successful return, 
\emph on
seq
\emph default
->ptr contains a pointer to memory that must be freed to avoid a memory
 leak.
 The restriction on memory size allows this converter to be conveniently
 used for sequences intended to be interpreted as array shapes.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_BufferConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Chunk*
\family default
 buf)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert any Python object, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, with a (single-segment) buffer interface to a variable with members that
 detail the object's use of its chunk of memory.
 The 
\emph on
buf
\emph default
 variable is a pointer to a structure with base, ptr, len, and flags members.
 The 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Chunk
\family default
 structure is binary compatibile with the Python's buffer object (through
 its len member on 32-bit platforms and its ptr member on 64-bit platforms
 or in Python 2.5).
 On return, the base member is set to 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 (or its base if 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 is already a buffer object pointing to another object).
 If you need to hold on to the memory be sure to INCREF the base member.
 The chunk of memory is pointed to by 
\emph on
buf
\emph default
->ptr member and has length 
\emph on
buf
\emph default
->len.
 The flags member of 
\emph on
buf
\emph default
 is 
\family typewriter
NPY_BEHAVED_RO
\family default
 with the 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 flag set if 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 has a writeable buffer interface.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_AxisConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject
\family default
* obj, 
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 axis)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert a Python object, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, representing an axis argument to the proper value for passing to the functions
 that take an integer axis.
 Specifically, if 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 is None, 
\emph on
axis
\emph default
 is set to 
\family typewriter
NPY_MAXDIMS
\family default
 which is interpreted correctly by the C-API functions that take axis arguments.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_BoolConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
Bool*
\family default
 value)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert any Python object, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, to 
\family typewriter
NPY_TRUE
\family default
 or 
\family typewriter
NPY_FALSE
\family default
, and place the result in 
\emph on
value
\emph default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_ByteorderConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 endian)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert Python strings into the corresponding byte-order character: '>',
 '<', 's', '=', or '|'.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SortkindConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
NPY_SORTKIND*
\family default
 sort)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert Python strings into one of 
\family typewriter
NPY_QUICKSORT
\family default
 (starts with 'q' or 'Q') , 
\family typewriter
NPY_HEAPSORT
\family default
 (starts with 'h' or 'H'), or 
\family typewriter
NPY_MERGESORT
\family default
 (starts with 'm' or 'M').
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SearchsideConverter (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
NPY_SEARCHSIDE*
\family default
 side)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert Python strings into one of 
\family typewriter
NPY_SEARCHLEFT
\family default
 (starts with 'l' or 'L'), or 
\family typewriter
NPY_SEARCHRIGHT
\family default
 (starts with 'r' or 'R').
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Other conversions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_PyIntAsInt (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert all kinds of Python objects (including arrays and array scalars)
 to a standard integer.
 On error, -1 is returned and an exception set.
 You may find useful the macro:
\end_layout

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#define error_converting(x) (((x) == -1) && PyErr_Occurred()
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_PyIntAsIntp (
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert all kinds of Python objects (including arrays and array scalars)
 to a (platform-pointer-sized) integer.
 On error, -1 is returned and an exception set.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_IntpFromSequence (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 seq, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 vals, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 maxvals)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert any Python sequence (or single Python number) passed in as 
\emph on
seq
\emph default
 to (up to) 
\emph on
maxvals
\emph default
 pointer-sized integers and place them in the 
\emph on
vals
\emph default
 array.
 The sequence can be smaller then 
\emph on
maxvals
\emph default
 as the number of converted objects is returned.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_TypestrConvert (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 itemsize, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 gentype)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Convert typestring characters (with 
\emph on
itemsize
\emph default
) to basic enumerated data types.
 The typestring character corresponding to signed and unsigned integers,
 floating point numbers, and complex-floating point numbers are recognized
 and converted.
 Other values of gentype are returned.
 This function can be used to convert, for example, the string 'f4' to 
\family typewriter
NPY_FLOAT32
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Miscellaneous
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Importing the API
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
In order to make use of the C-API from another extension module, the 
\family typewriter
import_array
\family default
() command must be used.
 If the extension module is self-contained in a single .c file, then that
 is all that needs to be done.
 If, however, the extension module involves multiple files where the C-API
 is needed then some additional steps must be taken.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
import_array (void) (void)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function must be called in the initialization section of a module
 that will make use of the C-API.
 It imports the module where the function-pointer table is stored and points
 the correct variable to it.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PY_ARRAY_UNIQUE_SYMBOL
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NO_IMPORT_ARRAY
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Using these #defines you can use the C-API in multiple files for a single
 extension module.
 In each file you must define 
\family typewriter
PY_ARRAY_UNIQUE_SYMBOL
\family default
 to some name that will hold the C-API (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 myextension_ARRAY_API).
 This must be done 
\series bold
before
\series default
 including the numpy/arrayobject.h file.
 In the module intialization routine you call 
\family typewriter
import_array
\family default
().
 In addition, in the files that do not have the module initialization sub_routin
e define 
\family typewriter
NO_IMPORT_ARRAY
\family default
 prior to including numpy/arrayobject.h.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Suppose I have two files coolmodule.c and coolhelper.c which need to be compiled
 and linked into a single extension module.
 Suppose coolmodule.c contains the required initcool module initialization
 function (with the import_array() function called).
 Then, coolmodule.c would have at the top:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
#define PY_ARRAY_UNIQUE_SYMBOL cool_ARRAY_API
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
#include numpy/arrayobject.h
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 On the other hand, coolhelper.c would contain at the top:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
#define PY_ARRAY_UNIQUE_SYMBOL cool_ARRAY_API
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
#define NO_IMPORT_ARRAY
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
#include numpy/arrayobject.h
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GetNDArrayCVersion (
\family typewriter
unsigned
\family default
 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This just returns the value 
\family typewriter
NPY_VERSION
\family default
.
 Because it is in the C-API, however, comparing the output of this function
 from the value defined in the current header gives a way to test if the
 C-API has changed thus requiring a re-compilation of extension modules
 that use the C-API.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Internal Flexibility
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SetNumericOps (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 dict)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 NumPy stores an internal table of Python callable objects that are used
 to implement arithmetic operations for arrays as well as certain array
 calculation methods.
 This function allows the user to replace any or all of these Python objects
 with their own versions.
 The keys of the dictionary, 
\emph on
dict
\emph default
, are the named functions to replace and the paired value is the Python
 callable object to use.
 Care should be taken that the function used to replace an internal array
 operation does not itself call back to that internal array operation (unless
 you have designed the function to handle that), or an unchecked infinite
 recursion can result (possibly causing program crash).
 The key names that represent operations that can be replaced are:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
add
\series default
, 
\series bold
subtract
\series default
, 
\series bold
multiply
\series default
, 
\series bold
divide
\series default
, 
\series bold
remainder
\series default
, 
\series bold
power
\series default
, 
\series bold
square, reciprocal, ones_like, sqrt
\series default
, 
\series bold
negative
\series default
, 
\series bold
absolute
\series default
, 
\series bold
invert
\series default
, 
\series bold
left_shift
\series default
, 
\series bold
right_shift
\series default
, 
\series bold
bitwise_and
\series default
, 
\series bold
bitwise_xor
\series default
, 
\series bold
bitwise_or
\series default
, 
\series bold
less
\series default
, 
\series bold
less_equal
\series default
, 
\series bold
equal
\series default
, 
\series bold
not_equal
\series default
, 
\series bold
greater
\series default
, 
\series bold
greater_equal
\series default
, 
\series bold
floor_divide
\series default
, 
\series bold
true_divide
\series default
, 
\series bold
logical_or
\series default
, 
\series bold
logical_and
\series default
, 
\series bold
floor
\series default
, 
\series bold
ceil
\series default
, 
\series bold
maximum
\series default
, 
\series bold
minimum
\series default
, 
\series bold
rint
\series default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 These functions are included here because they are used at least once in
 the array object's methods.
 The function returns -1 (without setting a Python Error) if one of the
 objects being assigned is not callable.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GetNumericOps (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return a Python dictionary containing the callable Python objects stored
 in the the internal arithmetic operation table.
 The keys of this dictionary are given in the explanation for 
\family typewriter
PyArray_SetNumericOps
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SetStringFunction (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 repr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function allows you to alter the tp_str and tp_repr methods of the
 array object to any Python function.
 Thus you can alter what happens for all arrays when str(arr) or repr(arr)
 is called from Python.
 The function to be called is passed in as 
\emph on
op
\emph default
.
 If 
\emph on
repr
\emph default
 is non-zero, then this function will be called in response to repr(arr),
 otherwise the function will be called in response to str(arr).
 No check on whether or not 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 is callable is performed.
 The callable passed in to 
\emph on
op
\emph default
 should expect an array argument and should return a string to be printed.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Memory management
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataMem_NEW (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
size_t
\family default
 nbytes)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataMem_FREE (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 ptr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDataMem_RENEW (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void *
\family default
 ptr, 
\family typewriter
size_t
\family default
 newbytes)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Macros to allocate, free, and reallocate memory.
 These macros are used internally to create arrays.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDimMem_NEW (
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
) (nd)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDimMem_FREE (
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 ptr) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyDimMem_RENEW (
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 ptr, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 newnd)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Macros to allocate, free, and reallocate dimension and strides memory.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_malloc (nbytes)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_free (ptr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_realloc (ptr, nbytes)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 These macros use different memory allocators, depending on the constant
 
\family typewriter
NPY_USE_PYMEM
\family default
.
 The system malloc is used when NPY_USE_PYMEM is 0, if NPY_USE_PYMEM is
 1, then the Python memory allocator is used.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Threading support
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
These macros are only meaningful if 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALLOW_THREADS
\family default
 evaluates True during compilation of the extension module.
 Otherwise, these macros are equivalent to whitespace.
 Python uses a single Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) for each Python process
 so that only a single thread may excecute at a time (even on multi-cpu
 machines).
 When calling out to a compiled function that may take time to compute (and
 does not have side-effects for other threads like updated global variables),
 the GIL should be released so that other Python threads can run while the
 time-consuming calculations are performed.
 This can be accomplished using two groups of macros.
 Typically, if one macro in a group is used in a code block, all of them
 must be used in the same code block.
 Currently, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALLOW_THREADS
\family default
 is defined to the python-defined 
\family typewriter
WITH_THREADS
\family default
 constant unless the environment variable 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOSMP
\family default
 is set in which case 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALLOW_THREADS
\family default
 is defined to be 0.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
Group\InsetSpace ~
1 This group is used to call code that may take some time but does
 not use any Python C-API calls.
 Thus, the GIL should be released during its calculation.
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
NPY_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS Equivalent to 
\family typewriter
Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
\family default
 except it uses 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALLOW_THREADS
\family default
 to determine if the macro if replaced with white-space or not.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_END_ALLOW_THREADS Equivalent to 
\family typewriter
Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
\family default
 except it uses 
\family typewriter
NPY_ALLOW_THREADS
\family default
 to determine if the macro if replaced with white-space or not.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_BEGIN_THREADS_DEF Place in the variable declaration area.
 This macro sets up the variable needed for storing the Python state.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_BEGIN_THREADS Place right before code that does not need the Python
 interpreter (no Python C-API calls).
 This macro saves the Python state and releases the GIL.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_END_THREADS Place right after code that does not need the Python interpreter.
 This macro acquires the GIL and restores the Python state from the saved
 variable.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_BEGIN_THREADS_DESCR (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype) Useful to release the GIL only if 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 does not contain arbitrary Python objects which may need the Python interpreter
 during execution of the loop.
 Equivalent to 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_END_THREADS_DESCR (
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 dtype) Useful to regain the GIL in situations where it was released using
 the BEGIN form of this macro.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Description
Group\InsetSpace ~
2 This group is used to re-acquire the Python GIL after it has been
 released.
 For example, suppose the GIL has been released (using the previous calls),
 and then some path in the code (perhaps in a different subroutine) requires
 use of the Python C-API, then these macros are useful to acquire the GIL.
 These macros accomplish essentially a reverse of the previous three (acquire
 the LOCK saving what state it had) and then re-release it with the saved
 state.
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
NPY_ALLOW_C_API_DEF Place in the variable declaration area to set up the
 necessary variable.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ALLOW_C_API Place before code that needs to call the Python C-API (when
 it is known that the GIL has already been released).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_DISABLE_C_API Place after code that needs to call the Python C-API (to
 re-release the GIL).
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Tip
Never use semicolons after the threading support macros.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Priority
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_PRIOIRTY Default priority for arrays.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_SUBTYPE_PRIORITY Default subtype priority.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_SCALAR_PRIORITY Default scalar priority (very small)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_GetPriority (
\family typewriter
double
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
double
\family default
 def)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return the 
\series bold
__array_priority__
\series default
 attribute (converted to a double) of 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 or 
\emph on
def
\emph default
 if no attribute of that name exists.
 Fast returns that avoid the attribute lookup are provided for objects of
 type 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Type
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Default buffers
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_BUFSIZE Default size of the user-settable internal buffers.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_MIN_BUFSIZE Smallest size of user-settable internal buffers.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_MAX_BUFSIZE Largest size allowed for the user-settable buffers.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Other constants
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_NUM_FLOATTYPE The number of floating-point types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_MAXDIMS The maximum number of dimensions allowed in arrays.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_VERSION The current version of the ndarray object (check to see if this
 variable is defined to guarantee the numpy/arrayobject.h header is being
 used).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_FALSE Defined as 0 for use with Bool.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_TRUE Defined as 1 for use with Bool.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_FAIL The return value of failed converter functions which are called
 using the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

O&
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 syntax in PyArg_ParseTuple-like functions.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_SUCCEED The return value of successful converter functions which are
 called using the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

O&
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 syntax in PyArg_ParseTuple-like functions.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Miscellaneous Macros
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SAMESHAPE (a1, a2)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Evaluates as True if arrays 
\emph on
a1
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
a2
\emph default
 have the same shape.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MAX (a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns the maximum of 
\emph on
a
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
b
\emph default
.
 If (
\emph on
a
\emph default
) or (
\emph on
b
\emph default
) are expressions they are evaluated twice.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_MIN (a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns the minimum of 
\emph on
a
\emph default
 and 
\emph on
b
\emph default
.
 If (
\emph on
a
\emph default
) or (
\emph on
b
\emph default
) are expressions they are evaluated twice.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CLT (a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CGT (a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CLE (a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CGE (a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CEQ (a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_CNE (a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Implements the complex comparisons between two complex numbers (structures
 with a real and imag member) using NumPy's definition of the ordering which
 is lexicographic: comparing the real parts first and then the complex parts
 if the real parts are equal.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_REFCOUNT (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 op)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Returns the reference count of any Python object.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_XDECREF_ERR (PyObject *obj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 DECREF's an array object which may have the 
\family typewriter
NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY
\family default
 flag set without causing the contents to be copied back into the original
 array.
 Resets the 
\family typewriter
NPY_WRITEABLE
\family default
 flag on the base object.
 This is useful for recovering from an error condition when 
\family typewriter
NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY
\family default
 is used.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Enumerated Types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_SORTKIND A special variable-type which can take on the values 
\series bold
NPY_
\series default
<KIND> where <KIND> is 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
QUICKSORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
HEAPSORT
\series default
, 
\series bold
MERGESORT
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 
\series bold
NPY_NSORTS
\series default
 is defined to be the number of sorts.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_SCALARKIND A special variable type indicating the number of 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

kinds
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 of scalars distinguished in determining scalar-coercion rules.
 This variable can take on the values NPY_<KIND> where <KIND> can be
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
NOSCALAR
\series default
, 
\series bold
BOOL_SCALAR
\series default
, 
\series bold
INTPOS_SCALAR
\series default
, 
\series bold
INTNEG_SCALAR
\series default
, 
\series bold
FLOAT_SCALAR
\series default
, 
\series bold
COMPLEX_SCALAR
\series default
, 
\series bold
OBJECT_SCALAR
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 
\series bold
NPY_NSCALARKINDS
\series default
 is defined to be the number of scalar kinds (not including 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOSCALAR
\family default
).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ORDER A variable type indicating the order that an array should be interpret
ed in.
 The value of a variable of this type can be 
\series bold
NPY_
\series default
<ORDER> where <ORDER> is
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
ANYORDER
\series default
, 
\series bold
CORDER
\series default
, 
\series bold
FORTRANORDER
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_CLIPMODE A variable type indicating the kind of clipping that should
 be applied in certain functions.
 The value of a variable of this type can be 
\series bold
NPY_
\series default
<MODE> where <MODE> is 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quote

\series bold
CLIP
\series default
, 
\series bold
WRAP
\series default
, 
\series bold
RAISE
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ndarray!C-API|)"

\end_inset


\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "C-API!array|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
UFunc API
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc!C-API|("

\end_inset


\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "C-API!ufunc|("

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Constants
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
UFUNC_ERR_<HANDLER>
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 <HANDLER> can be 
\series bold
IGNORE
\series default
, 
\series bold
WARN
\series default
, 
\series bold
RAISE
\series default
, or 
\series bold
CALL
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
UFUNC_<THING>_<ERR>
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 <THING> can be 
\series bold
MASK
\series default
, 
\series bold
SHIFT
\series default
, or 
\series bold
FPE
\series default
, and <ERR> can be 
\series bold
DIVIDEBYZERO
\series default
, 
\series bold
OVERFLOW
\series default
, 
\series bold
UNDERFLOW
\series default
, and 
\series bold
INVALID
\series default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_<VALUE> <VALUE> can be 
\series bold
One
\series default
 (1), 
\series bold
Zero
\series default
 (0), or 
\series bold
None
\series default
 (-1)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Macros
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_LOOP_BEGIN_THREADS 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Used in universal function code to only release the Python GIL if loop->obj
 is not true (
\emph on
i.e.

\emph default
 this is not an OBJECT array loop).
 Requires use of 
\family typewriter
NPY_BEGIN_THREADS_DEF
\family default
 in variable declaration area.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_LOOP_END_THREADS 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Used in universal function code to re-acquire the Python GIL if it was
 released (because loop->obj was not true).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
UFUNC_CHECK_ERROR (loop) 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A macro used internally to check for errors and goto fail if found.
 This macro requires a fail label in the current code block.
 The 
\emph on
loop
\emph default
 variable must have at least members (obj, errormask, and errorobj).
 If 
\emph on
loop
\emph default
->obj is nonzero, then 
\family typewriter
PyErr_Occurred
\family default
() is called (meaning the GIL must be held).
 If 
\emph on
loop
\emph default
->obj is zero, then if 
\emph on
loop
\emph default
->errormask is nonzero, 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_checkfperr
\family default
 is called with arguments 
\emph on
loop
\emph default
->errormask and 
\emph on
loop
\emph default
->errobj.
 If the result of this check of the IEEE floating point registers is true
 then the code redirects to the fail label which must be defined.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
UFUNC_CHECK_STATUS (
\emph on
ret
\emph default
)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A macro that expands to platform-dependent code.
 The 
\emph on
ret
\emph default
 variable can can be any integer.
 The 
\family typewriter
UFUNC_FPE_
\family default
<ERR> bits are set in 
\emph on
ret
\emph default
 according to the status of the corresponding error flags of the floating
 point processor.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Functions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_FromFuncAndData (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyUFuncGenericFunction*
\family default
 func, 
\family typewriter
void**
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 types, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 ntypes, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nin, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nout, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 identity, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 name, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 doc, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 check_return)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Create a new broadcasting universal function from required variables.
 Each ufunc builds around the notion of an element-by-element operation.
 Each ufunc object contains pointers to 1-d loops implementing the basic
 functionality for each supported type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nin The number of inputs to this operation.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nout The number of outputs
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ntypes How many different data-type 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

signatures
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 the ufunc has implemented.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
func Must to an array of length 
\emph on
ntypes
\emph default
 containing 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncGenericFunction
\family default
 items.
 These items are pointers to functions that acutally implement the underlying
 (element-by-element) function 
\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

 times.
 T
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
types Must be of length (
\emph on
nin
\emph default
+
\emph on
nout
\emph default
)
\emph on
*ntypes
\emph default
, and it contains the data-types (built-in only) that the corresponding
 function in the 
\emph on
func
\emph default
 array can deal with.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
data Should be 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 or a pointer to an array of size 
\emph on
ntypes
\emph default
.
 This array may contain arbitrary extra-data to be passed to the corresponding
 1-d loop function in the func array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
name The name for the ufunc.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
doc Allows passing in a documentation string to be stored with the ufunc.
 The documentation string should not contain the name of the function or
 the calling signature as that will be dynamically determined from the object
 and available when accessing the 
\series bold
__doc__
\series default
 attribute of the ufunc.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
check_return Unused and present for backwards compatibility of the C-API.
 A corresponding 
\emph on
check_return
\emph default
 integer does exist in the ufunc structure and it does get set with this
 value when the ufunc object is created.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_RegisterLoopForType (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyUFuncObject*
\family default
 ufunc, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 usertype, 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncGenericFunction
\family default
 function, 
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 arg_types, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function allows the user to register a 1-d loop with an already-created
 ufunc to be used whenever the ufunc is called with any of its input arguments
 as the user-defined data-type.
 This is needed in order to make ufuncs work with built-in data-types.
 The data-type must have been previously registered with the numpy system.
 The loop is passed in as 
\emph on
function
\emph default
.
 This loop can take arbitrary data which should be passed in as 
\emph on
data
\emph default
.
 The data-types the loop requires are passed in as 
\emph on
arg_types
\emph default
 which must be a pointer to memory at least as large as ufunc->nargs.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_ReplaceLoopBySignature (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyUFuncObject*
\family default
 ufunc, 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncGenericFunction
\family default
 newfunc, 
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 signature, 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncGenericFunction*
\family default
 oldfunc)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Replace a 1-d loop matching the given 
\emph on
signature
\emph default
 in the already-created 
\emph on
ufunc
\emph default
 with the new 1-d loop newfunc.
 Return the old 1-d loop function in 
\emph on
oldfunc
\emph default
.
 Return 0 on success and -1 on failure.
 This function works only with built-in types (use 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_RegisterLoopForType
\family default
 for user-defined types).
 A signature is an array of data-type numbers indicating the inputs followed
 by the outputs assumed by the 1-d loop.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_GenericFunction (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyUFuncObject*
\family default
 self, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject**
\family default
 mps)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A generic ufunc call.
 The ufunc is passed in as 
\emph on
self
\emph default
, the arguments to the ufunc as 
\emph on
args
\emph default
.
 The 
\emph on
mps
\emph default
 argument is an array of 
\family typewriter
PyArrayObject
\family default
 pointers containing the converted input arguments as well as the ufunc
 outputs on return.
 The user is responsible for managing this array and receives a new reference
 for each array in 
\emph on
mps
\emph default
.
 The total number of arrays in 
\emph on
mps
\emph default
 is given by 
\emph on
self
\emph default
->nin + 
\emph on
self
\emph default
->nout.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_checkfperr (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 errmask, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 errobj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 A simple interface to the IEEE error-flag checking support.
 The 
\emph on
errmask
\emph default
 argument is a mask of 
\family typewriter
UFUNC_MASK_<ERR>
\family default
 bitmasks indicating which errors to check for (and how to check for them).
 The 
\emph on
errobj
\emph default
 must be a Python tuple with two elements: a string containing the name
 which will be used in any communication of error and either a callable
 Python object (call-back function) or 
\family typewriter
Py_None
\family default
.
 The callable object will only be used if 
\family typewriter
UFUNC_ERR_CALL
\family default
 is set as the desired error checking method.
 This routine manages the GIL and is safe to call even after releasing the
 GIL.
 If an error in the IEEE-compatibile hardware is determined a -1 is returned,
 otherwise a 0 is returned.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_clearfperr (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) ()
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Clear the IEEE error flags.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_GetPyValues (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 name, 
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 bufsize, 
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 errmask, 
\family typewriter
PyObject**
\family default
 errobj)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Get the Python values used for ufunc processing from the thread-local storage
 area unless the defaults have been set in which case the name lookup is
 bypassed.
 The name is placed as a string in the first element of 
\emph on
*errobj
\emph default
.
 The second element is the looked-up function to call on error callback.
 The value of the looked-up buffer-size to use is passed into 
\emph on
bufsize
\emph default
, and the value of the error mask is placed into 
\emph on
errmask
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Generic functions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
At the core of every ufunc is a collection of type-specific functions that
 defines the basic functionality for each of the supported types.
 These functions must evaluate the underlying function 
\begin_inset Formula $N\geq1$
\end_inset

 times.
 Extra-data may be passed in that may be used during the calculation.
 This feature allows some general functions to be used as these basic looping
 functions.
 The general function has all the code needed to point variables to the
 right place and set up a function call.
 The general function assumes that the actual function to call is passed
 in as the extra data and calls it with the correct values.
 All of these functions are suitable for placing directly in the array of
 functions stored in the functions member of the PyUFuncObject structure.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_f_f_As_d_d (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_d_d (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_f_f (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_g_g (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_F_F_As_D_D (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_F_F (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_D_D (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_G_G (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type specific, core 1-d functions for ufuncs where each calculation is
 obtained by calling a function taking one input argument and returning
 one output.
 This function is passed in 
\family typewriter
func
\family default
.
 The letters correspond to dtypechar's of the supported data types (
\family typewriter
f
\family default
 - float, 
\family typewriter
d
\family default
 - double, 
\family typewriter
g
\family default
 - long double, 
\family typewriter
F
\family default
 - cfloat, 
\family typewriter
D
\family default
 - cdouble, 
\family typewriter
G
\family default
 - clongdouble).
 The argument 
\emph on
func
\emph default
 must support the same signature.
 The _As_X_X variants assume ndarray's of one data type but cast the values
 to use an underlying function that takes a different data type.
 Thus, 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_f_f_As_d_d
\family default
 uses ndarrays of data type 
\family typewriter
NPY_FLOAT
\family default
 but calls out to a C-function that takes double and returns double.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_ff_f_As_dd_d (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_ff_f (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_dd_d (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_gg_g (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_FF_F_As_DD_D (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_DD_D (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_FF_F (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_GG_G (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Type specific, core 1-d functions for ufuncs where each calculation is
 obtained by calling a function taking two input arguments and returning
 one output.
 The underlying function to call is passed in as 
\emph on
func
\emph default
.
 The letters correspond to dtypechar's of the specific data type supported
 by the general-purpose function.
 The argument 
\family typewriter
func
\family default
 must support the corresponding signature.
 The 
\family typewriter
_As_XX_X
\family default
 variants assume ndarrays of one data type but cast the values at each iteration
 of the loop to use the underlying function that takes a different data
 type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_O_O (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_OO_O (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 One-input, one-output, and two-input, one-output core 1-d functions for
 the 
\family typewriter
NPY_OBJECT
\family default
 data type.
 These functions handle reference count issues and return early on error.
 The actual function to call is 
\emph on
func
\emph default
 and it must accept calls with the signature (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) for 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_O_O
\family default
 or (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject
\family default
 *, 
\family typewriter
PyObject
\family default
 *) for 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_OO_O
\family default
.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_O_O_method (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This general purpose 1-d core function assumes that 
\emph on
func
\emph default
 is a string representing a method of the input object.
 For each iteration of the loop, the Python obejct is extracted from the
 array and its 
\emph on
func
\emph default
 method is called returning the result to the output array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_OO_O_method (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This general purpose 1-d core function assumes that 
\emph on
func
\emph default
 is a string representing a method of the input object that takes one argument.
 The first argument in 
\emph on
args
\emph default
 is the method whose function is called, the second argument in 
\emph on
args
\emph default
 is the argument passed to the function.
 The output of the function is stored in the third entry of 
\emph on
args
\emph default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_On_Om (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 func)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This is the 1-d core function used by the dynamic ufuncs created by umath.frompy
func(function, nin, nout).
 In this case 
\emph on
func
\emph default
 is a pointer to a 
\family typewriter
PyUFunc_PyFuncData
\family default
 structure which has definition {
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nin; 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nout; 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 callable}.
 At each iteration of the loop, the 
\emph on
nin
\emph default
 input objects are exctracted from their object arrays and placed into an
 argument tuple, the Python 
\emph on
callable
\emph default
 is called with the input arguments, and the nout outputs are placed into
 their object arrays.
 
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\begin_layout Section
Importing the API
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PY_UFUNC_UNIQUE_SYMBOL
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NO_IMPORT_UFUNC
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
import_ufunc (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 These are the constants and functions for accessing the ufunc C-API from
 extension modules in precisely the same way as the array C-API can be accessed.
 The 
\family typewriter
import_ufunc
\family default
() function must always be called (in the initialization subroutine of the
 extension module).
 If your extension module is in one file then that is all that is required.
 The other two constants are useful if your extension module makes use of
 multiple files.
 In that case, define 
\family typewriter
PY_UFUNC_UNIQUE_SYMBOL
\family default
 to something unique to your code and then in source files that do not contain
 the module initialization function but still need access to the UFUNC API,
 define 
\family typewriter
PY_UFUNC_UNIQUE_SYMBOL
\family default
 to the same name used previously and also define 
\family typewriter
NO_IMPORT_UFUNC
\family default
.
 
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\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 The C-API is actually an array of function pointers.
 This array is created (and pointed to by a global variable) by import_ufunc.
 The global variable is either statically defined or allowed to be seen
 by other files depending on the state of 
\family typewriter
Py_UFUNC_UNIQUE_SYMBOL
\family default
 and 
\family typewriter
NO_IMPORT_UFUNC
\family default
.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc!C-API|)"

\end_inset


\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "C-API!ufunc|)"

\end_inset


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\begin_layout Chapter
How to extend NumPy
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
That which is static and repetitive is boring.
 That which is dynamic and random is confusing.
 In between lies art.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
John A.
 Locke
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
Science is a differential equation.
 Religion is a boundary condition.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
Alan Turing
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Writing an extension module
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand label
name "sec:Writing-an-extension"

\end_inset


\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "extension module|("

\end_inset

While the ndarray object is designed to allow rapid computation in Python,
 it is also designed to be general-purpose and satisfy a wide-variety of
 computational needs.
 As a result, if absolute speed is essential, there is no replacement for
 a well-crafted, compiled loop specific to your application and hardware.
 This is one of the reasons that numpy includes f2py so that an easy-to-use
 mechanisms for linking (simple) C/C++ and (arbitrary) Fortran code directly
 into Python are available.
 You are encouraged to use and improve this mechanism.
 The purpose of this section is not to document this tool but to document
 the more basic steps to writing an extension module that this tool depends
 on.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When an extension module is written, compiled, and installed to somewhere
 in the Python path (sys.path), the code can then be imported into Python
 as if it were a standard python file.
 It will contain objects and methods that have been defined and compiled
 in C code.
 The basic steps for doing this in Python are well-documented and you can
 find more information in the documentation for Python itself available
 online at 
\begin_inset LatexCommand url
name "www.python.org"
target "http://www.python.org"

\end_inset

.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
In addition to the Python C-API, there is a full and rich C-API for NumPy
 allowing sophisticated manipulations on a C-level.
 However, for most applications, only a few API calls will typically be
 used.
 If all you need to do is extract a pointer to memory along with some shape
 information to pass to another calculation routine, then you will use very
 different calls, then if you are trying to create a new array-like type
 or add a new data type for ndarrays.
 This chapter documents the API calls and macros that are most commonly
 used.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Required subroutine
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There is exactly one function that must be defined in your C-code in order
 for Python to use it as an extension module.
 The function must be called init<name> where <name> is the name of the
 module from Python.
 This function must be declared so that it is visible to code outside of
 the routine.
 Besides adding the methods and constants you desire, this subroutine must
 also contain calls to import_array() and/or import_ufunc() depending on
 which C-API is needed.
 Forgetting to place these commands will show itself as an ugly segmentation
 fault (crash) as soon as any C-API subroutine is actually called.
 It is actually possible to have multiple init<name> functions in a single
 file in which case multiple modules will be defined by that file.
 However, there are some tricks to get that to work correctly and it is
 not covered here.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A minimal init<name> method looks like
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
PyMODINIT_FUNC
\newline
init<name>(void)
\newline
{ 
\newline
   (void)Py_InitModule(
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

<name>
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

, mymethods);
\newline
   import_array();
\newline
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The mymethods must be an array (usually statically declared) of PyMethodDef
 structures which contain method names, actual C-functions, a variable indicatin
g whether the method uses keyword arguments or not, and docstrings.
 These are explained in the next section.
 If you want to add constants to the module, then you store the returned
 value from Py_InitModule which is a module object.
 The most general way to add itmes to the module is to get the module dictionary
 using PyModule_GetDict(module).
 With the module dictionary, you can add whatever you like to the module
 manually.
 An easier way to add objects to the module is to use one of three additional
 Python C-API calls that do not require a separate extraction of the module
 dictionary.
 These are documented in the Python documentation, but repeated here for
 convenience: 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyModule_AddObject (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 module, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 name, 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 value)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyModule_AddIntConstant (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 module, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 name, 
\family typewriter
long
\family default
 value)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyModule_AddStringConstant (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 module, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 name, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 value)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 All three of these functions require the 
\family typewriter
module
\family default
 object (the return value of Py_InitModule).
 The 
\family typewriter
name
\family default
 is a string that labels the value in the module.
 Depending on which function is called, the 
\family typewriter
value
\family default
 argument is either a general object (PyModule_AddObject steals a reference
 to it), an integer constant, or a string constant.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Defining functions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The second argument passed in to the Py_InitModule function is a structure
 that makes it easy to to define functions in the module.
 In the example given above, the mymethods structure would have been defined
 earlier in the file (usually right before the init<name> subroutine) to
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
static PyMethodDef mymethods[] = {
\newline
{
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

nokeywordfunc
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

,nokeyword_cfunc,
\newline
METH_VARARGS,
\newline

\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

Doc string
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

},
\newline
{
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

keywordfunc
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

, keyword_cfunc,
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
\newline

\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

Doc string
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

},
\newline
{NULL, NULL, 0, NULL} /* Sentinel */
\newline
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Each entry in the mymethods array is a PyMethodDef structure containing
 1) the Python name, 2) the C-function that implements the function, 3)
 flags indicating whether or not keywords are accepted for this function,
 and 4) The docstring for the function.
 Any number of functions may be defined for a single module by adding more
 entries to this table.
 The last entry must be all NULL as shown to act as a sentinel.
 Python looks for this entry to know that all of the functions for the module
 have been defined.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The last thing that must be done to finish the extension module is to actually
 write the code that performs the desired functions.
 There are two kinds of functions: those that don't accept keyword arguments,
 and those that do.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Functions without keyword arguments
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Functions that don't accept keyword arguments should be written as 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
static PyObject*
\newline
nokeyword_cfunc (PyObject *dummy, PyObject *args)
\newline
{
\newline
    /*
 convert Python arguments */
\newline
    /* do function */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    /* return something */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The dummy argument is not used in this context and can be safely ignored.
 The 
\emph on
args
\emph default
 argument contains all of the arguments passed in to the function as a tuple.
 You can do anything you want at this point, but usually the easiest way
 to manage the input arguments is to call 
\family typewriter
PyArg_ParseTuple
\family default
 (args, format_string, addresses_to_C_variables...) or 
\family typewriter
PyArg_UnpackTuple
\family default
 (tuple, 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

name
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

, min, max, ...).
 A good description of how to use the first function is contained in the
 Python C-API reference manual under section 5.5 (Parsing arguments and building
 values).
 You should pay particular attention to the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

O&
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 format which uses converter functions to go between the Python object and
 the C object.
 All of the other format functions can be (mostly) thought of as special
 cases of this general rule.
 There are several converter functions defined in the NumPy C-API that may
 be of use.
 In particular, the 
\family typewriter
PyArray_DescrConverter
\family default
 function is very useful to support arbitrary data-type specification.
 This function transforms any valid data-type Python object into a 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 object.
 Remember to pass in the address of the C-variables that should be filled
 in.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There are lots of examples of how to use 
\family typewriter
PyArg_ParseTuple
\family default
 throughout the NumPy source code.
 The standard usage is like this:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
PyObject *input;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
PyArray_Descr *dtype;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OO&", &input,
\newline
                      PyArray_DescrCon
verter,
\newline
                      &dtype)) return NULL;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
It is important to keep in mind that you get a 
\emph on
borrowed
\emph default
 reference to the object when using the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

O
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 format string.
 However, the converter functions usually require some form of memory handling.
 In this example, if the conversion is successful, 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 will hold a new reference to a 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr*
\family default
 object, while 
\emph on
input
\emph default
 will hold a borrowed reference.
 Therefore, if this conversion were mixed with another conversion (say to
 an integer) and the data-type conversion was successful but the integer
 conversion failed, then you would need to release the reference count to
 the data-type object before returning.
 A typical way to do this is to set 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 to 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 before calling PyArg_ParseTuple and then use 
\family typewriter
Py_XDECREF
\family default
 on 
\emph on
dtype
\emph default
 before returning.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
After the input arguments are processed, the code that actually does the
 work is written (likely calling other functions as needed).
 The final step of the C-function is to return something.
 If an error is encountered then 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 should be returned (making sure an error has actually been set).
 If nothing should be returned then increment 
\family typewriter
Py_None
\family default
 and return it.
 If a single object should be returned then it is returned (ensuring that
 you own a reference to it first).
 If multiple objects should be returned then you need to return a tuple.
 The 
\family typewriter
Py_BuildValue
\family default
 (format_string, c_variables...) function makes it easy to build tuples of
 Python objects from C variables.
 Pay special attention to the difference between 'N' and 'O' in the format
 string or you can easily create memory leaks.
 The 'O' format string increments the reference count of the 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 C-variable it corresponds to, while the 'N' format string steals a reference
 to the corresponding 
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 C-variable.
 You should use 'N' if you ave already created a reference for the object
 and just want to give that reference to the tuple.
 You should use 'O' if you only have a borrowed reference to an object and
 need to create one to provide for the tuple.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Functions with keyword arguments
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
These functions are very similar to functions without keyword arguments.
 The only difference is that the function signature is
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
static PyObject*
\newline
keyword_cfunc (PyObject *dummy, PyObject *args, PyObject
 *kwds)
\newline
{
\newline
...
\newline
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The kwds argument holds a Python dictionary whose keys are the names of
 the keyword arguments and whose values are the corresponding keyword-argument
 values.
 This dictionary can be processed however you see fit.
 The easiest way to handle it, however, is to replace the 
\family typewriter
PyArg_ParseTuple
\family default
 (args, format_string, addresses...) function with a call to 
\family typewriter
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords
\family default
 (args, kwds, format_string, char *kwlist[], addresses...).
 The kwlist parameter to this function is a 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
-terminated array of strings providing the expected keyword arguments.
 There should be one string for each entry in the format_string.
 Using this function will raise a TypeError if invalid keyword arguments
 are passed in.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
For more help on this function please see section 1.8 (Keyword Paramters
 for Extension Functions) of the Extending and Embedding tutorial in the
 Python documentation.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Reference counting
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "reference counting|("

\end_inset

The biggest difficulty when writing extension modules is reference counting.
 It is an important reason for the popularity of f2py, weave, pyrex, ctypes,
 etc....
 If you mis-handle reference counts you can get problems from memory-leaks
 to segmentation faults.
 The only strategy I know of to handle reference counts correctly is blood,
 sweat, and tears.
 First, you force it into your head that every Python variable has a reference
 count.
 Then, you understand exactly what each function does to the reference count
 of your objects, so that you can properly use DECREF and INCREF when you
 need them.
 Reference counting can really test the amount of patience and diligence
 you have towards your programming craft.
 Despite the grim depiction, most cases of reference counting are quite
 straightforward with the most common difficulty being not using DECREF
 on objects before exiting early from a routine due to some error.
 In second place, is the common error of not owning the reference on an
 object that is passed to a function or macro that is going to steal the
 reference (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 
\family typewriter
PyTuple_SET_ITEM
\family default
, and most functions that take 
\family typewriter
PyArray_Descr
\family default
 objects).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Typically you get a new reference to a variable when it is created or is
 the return value of some function (there are some prominent exceptions,
 however --- such as getting an item out of a tuple or a dictionary).
 When you own the reference, you are responsible to make sure that 
\family typewriter
Py_DECREF
\family default
(var) is called when the variable is no longer necessary (and no other function
 has 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

stolen
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 its reference).
 Also, if you are passing a Python object to a function that will 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

steal
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 the reference, then you need to make sure you own it (or use 
\family typewriter
Py_INCREF
\family default
 to get your own reference).
 You will also encounter the notion of borrowing a reference.
 A function that borrows a reference does not alter the reference count
 of the object and does not expect to 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

hold on
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 to the reference.
 It's just going to use the object temporarily.
 When you use 
\family typewriter
PyArg_ParseTuple
\family default
 or 
\family typewriter
PyArg_UnpackTuple
\family default
 you receive a borrowed reference to the objects in the tuple and should
 not alter their reference count inside your function.
 With practice, you can learn to get reference counting right, but it can
 be frustrating at first.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
One common source of reference-count errors is the 
\family typewriter
Py_BuildValue
\family default
 function.
 Pay careful attention to the difference between the 'N' format character
 and the 'O' format character.
 If you create a new object in your subroutine (such as an output array),
 and you are passing it back in a tuple of return values, then you should
 most-likely use the 'N' format character in 
\family typewriter
Py_BuildValue
\family default
.
 The 'O' character will increase the reference count by one.
 This will leave the caller with two reference counts for a brand-new array.
 When the variable is deleted and the reference count decremented by one,
 there will still be that extra reference count, and the array will never
 be deallocated.
 You will have a reference-counting induced memory leak.
 Using the 'N' character will avoid this situation as it will return to
 the caller an object (inside the tuple) with a single reference count.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "reference counting|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Dealing with array objects
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Most extension modules for NumPy will need to access the memory for an ndarray
 object (or one of it's sub-classes).
 The easiest way to do this doesn't require you to know much about the internals
 of NumPy.
 The method is to
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Ensure you are dealing with a well-behaved array (aligned, in machine byte-order
 and single-segment) of the correct type and number of dimensions.
 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Enumerate
By converting it from some Python object using 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
 or a macro built on it.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
By constructing a new ndarray of your desired shape and type using 
\family typewriter
PyArray_NewFromDescr
\family default
 or a simpler macro or function based on it.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Enumerate
Get the shape of the array and a pointer to its actual data.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Pass the data and shape information on to a subroutine or other section
 of code that actually performs the computation.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
If you are writing the algorithm, then I recommend that you use the stride
 information contained in the array to access the elements of the array
 (the 
\family typewriter
PyArray_GETPTR
\family default
 macros make this painless).
 Then, you can relax your requirements so as not to force a single-segment
 array and the data-copying that might result.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Each of these sub-topics is covered in the following sub-sections.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Converting an arbitrary sequence object
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The main routine for obtaining an array from any Python object that can
 be converted to an array is 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FromAny
\family default
.
 This function is very flexible with many input arguments.
 Several macros make it easier to use the basic function.
 
\family typewriter
PyArray_FROM_OTF
\family default
 is arguably the most useful of these macros for the most common uses.
 It allows you to convert an arbitrary Python object to an array of a specific
 builtin data-type (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 float), while specifying a particular set of requirements (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 contiguous, aligned, and writeable).
 The syntax is 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_FROM_OTF (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
 obj, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 requirements)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Return an ndarray from any Python object, 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
, that can be converted to an array.
 The number of dimensions in the returned array is determined by the object.
 The desired data-type of the returned array is provided in 
\emph on
typenum
\emph default
 which should be one of the enumerated types.
 The 
\emph on
requirements
\emph default
 for the returned array can be any combination of standard array flags.
 Each of these arguments is explained in more detail below.
 You receive a new reference to the array on success.
 On failure, 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 is returned and an exception is set.
 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
obj The object can be any Python object convertable to an ndarray.
 If the object is already (a subclass of) the ndarray that satisfies the
 requirements then a new reference is returned.
 Otherwise, a new array is constructed.
 The contents of 
\emph on
obj
\emph default
 are copied to the new array unless the array interface is used so that
 data does not have to be copied.
 Objects that can be converted to an array include: 1) any nested sequence
 object, 2) any object exposing the array interface, 3) any object with
 an 
\series bold
__array__
\series default
 method (which should return an ndarray), and 4) any scalar object (becomes
 a zero-dimensional array).
 Sub-classes of the ndarray that otherwise fit the requirements will be
 passed through.
 If you want to ensure a base-class ndarray, then use 
\family typewriter
NPY_ENSUREARRAY
\family default
 in the requirements flag.
 A copy is made only if necessary.
 If you want to guarantee a copy, then pass in 
\family typewriter
NPY_ENSURECOPY
\family default
 to the requirements flag.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
typenum One of the enumerated types or 
\family typewriter
NPY_NOTYPE
\family default
 if the data-type should be determined from the object itself.
 The C-based names can be used: 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Quote

\family typewriter
NPY_BOOL
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_BYTE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UBYTE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_SHORT
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_USHORT
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_INT
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UINT
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_LONG
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ULONG
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_LONGLONG
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_ULONGLONG
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_DOUBLE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_LONGDOUBLE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_CFLOAT
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_CDOUBLE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_CLONGDOUBLE
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_OBJECT
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Alternatively, the bit-width names can be used as supported on the platform.
 For example: 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Quote

\family typewriter
NPY_INT8
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_INT16
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_INT32
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_INT64
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UINT8
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UINT16
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UINT32
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_UINT64
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_FLOAT32
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_FLOAT64
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_COMPLEX64
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_COMPLEX128
\family default
.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 The object will be converted to the desired type only if it can be done
 without losing precision.
 Otherwise 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
 will be returned and an error raised.
 Use 
\family typewriter
NPY_FORCECAST
\family default
 in the requirements flag to override this behavior.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
requirements The memory model for an ndarray admits arbitrary strides in
 each dimension to advance to the next element of the array.
 Often, however, you need to interface with code that expects a C-contiguous
 or a Fortran-contiguous memory layout.
 In addition, an ndarray can be misaligned (the address of an element is
 not at an integral multiple of the size of the element) which can cause
 your program to crash (or at least work more slowly) if you try and dereference
 a pointer into the array data.
 Both of these problems can be solved by converting the Python object into
 an array that is more 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

well-behaved
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 for your specific usage.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 The requirements flag allows specification of what kind of array is acceptable.
 If the object passed in does not satisfy this requirements then a copy
 is made so that thre returned object will satisfy the requirements.
 these ndarray can use a very generic pointer to memory.
 This flag allows specification of the desired properties of the returned
 array object.
 All of the flags are explained in the detailed API chapter.
 The flags most commonly needed are NPY_IN_ARRAY, NPY_OUT_ARRAY, and NPY_INOUT_A
RRAY:
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
NPY_IN_ARRAY Equivalent to NPY_CONTIGUOUS | NPY_ALIGNED.
 This combination of flags is useful for arrays that must be in C-contiguous
 order and aligned.
 These kinds of arrays are usually input arrays for some algorithm.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_OUT_ARRAY Equivalent to NPY_CONTIGUOUS | NPY_ALIGNED | NPY_WRITEABLE.
 This combination of flags is useful to specify an array that is in C-contiguous
 order, is aligned, and can be written to as well.
 Such an array is usually returned as output (although normally such output
 arrays are created from scratch).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_INOUT_ARRAY Equivalent to NPY_CONTIGUOUS | NPY_ALIGNED | NPY_WRITEABLE
 | NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY.
 This combination of flags is useful to specify an array that will be used
 for both input and output.
 If a copy is needed, then when the temporary is deleted (by your use of
 Py_DECREF at the end of the interface routine), the temporary array will
 be copied back into the original array passed in.
 Use of the UPDATEIFCOPY flag requires that the input object is already
 an array (because other objects cannot be automatically updated in this
 fashion).
 If an error occurs use 
\series bold
PyArray_DECREF_ERR
\series default
(obj) on an array with the NPY_UPDATEIFCOPY flag set.
 This will delete the array without causing the contents to be copied back
 into the original array.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Other useful flags that can be OR'd as additional requirements are:
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
NPY_FORCECAST Cast to the desired type, even if it can't be done without
 losing information.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ENSURECOPY Make sure the resulting array is a copy of the original.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
NPY_ENSUREARRAY Make sure the resulting object is an actual ndarray and
 not a sub-class.
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Note
Whether or not an array is byte-swapped is determined by the data-type of
 the array.
 Native byte-order arrays are always requested by PyArray_FROM_OTF and so
 there is no need for a NPY_NOTSWAPPED flag in the requirements argument.
 There is also no way to get a byte-swapped array from this routine.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Creating a brand-new ndarray
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Quite often new arrays must be created from within extension-module code.
 Perhaps an output array is needed and you don't want the caller to have
 to supply it.
 Perhaps only a temporary array is needed to hold an intermediate calculation.
 Whatever the need there are simple ways to get an ndarray object of whatever
 data-type is needed.
 The most general function for doing this is PyArray_NewFromDescr.
 All array creation functions go through this heavily re-used code.
 Because of its flexibility, it can be somewhat confusing to use.
 As a result, simpler forms exist that are easier to use.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SimpleNew (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
)(
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 This function allocates new memory and places it in an ndarray with 
\family typewriter
nd
\family default
 dimensions whose shape is determined by the array of at least 
\family typewriter
nd
\family default
 items pointed to by 
\family typewriter
dims
\family default
.
 The memory for the array is uninitialized (unless typenum is 
\series bold
PyArray_OBJECT
\series default
 in which case each element in the array is set to NULL).
 The 
\family typewriter
typenum
\family default
 argument allows specification of any of the builtin data-types such as
 
\series bold
PyArray_FLOAT
\series default
 or 
\series bold
PyArray_LONG
\series default
.
 The memory for the array can be set to zero if desired using 
\series bold
PyArray_FILLWBYTE
\series default
(return_object, 0).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyArray_SimpleNewFromData (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nd, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dims, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 typenum, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Sometimes, you want to wrap memory allocated elsewhere into an ndarray
 object for downstream use.
 This routine makes it straightforward to do that.
 The first three arguments are the same as in 
\series bold
PyArray_SimpleNew
\series default
, the final argument is a pointer to a block of contiguous memory that the
 ndarray should use as it's data-buffer which will be interpreted in C-style
 contiguous fashion.
 A new reference to an ndarray is returned, but the ndarray will not own
 its data.
 When this ndarray is deallocated, the pointer will not be freed.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 You should ensure that the provided memory is not freed while the returned
 array is in existence.
 The easiest way to handle this is if data comes from another reference-counted
 Python object.
 The reference count on this object should be increased after the pointer
 is passed in, and the base member of the returned ndarray should point
 to the Python object that owns the data.
 Then, when the ndarray is deallocated, the base-member will be DECREF'd
 appropriately.
 If you want the memory to be freed as soon as the ndarray is deallocated
 then simply set the OWNDATA flag on the returned ndarray.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Getting at ndarray memory and accessing elements of the ndarray
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
If obj is an ndarray (PyArrayObject *), then the data-area of the ndarray
 is pointed to by the void* pointer 
\series bold
PyArray_DATA
\series default
(obj) or the char* pointer 
\series bold
PyArray_BYTES
\series default
(obj).
 Remember that (in general) this data-area may not be aligned according
 to the data-type, it may represent byte-swapped data, and/or it may not
 be writeable.
 If the data area is aligned and in native byte-order, then how to get at
 a specific element of the array is determined only by the array of npy_intp
 variables, 
\series bold
PyArray_STRIDES
\series default
(obj).
 In particular, this c-array of integers shows how many 
\series bold
bytes
\series default
 must be added to the current element pointer to get to the next element
 in each dimension.
 For arrays less than 4-dimensions there are 
\series bold
PyArray_GETPTR<k>
\series default
(obj, ...) macros where <k> is the integer 1, 2, 3, or 4 that make using the
 array strides easier.
 The arguments ....
 represent <k> non-negative integer indices into the array.
 For example, suppose 
\family typewriter
E
\family default
 is a 3-dimensional ndarray.
 A (void*) pointer to the element 
\family typewriter
E[i,j,k]
\family default
 is obtained as PyArray_GETPTR3(E, i, j, k).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
As explained previously, C-style contiguous arrays and Fortran-style contiguous
 arrays have particular striding patterns.
 Two array flags (NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS and NPY_F_CONTIGUOUS) indicate whether
 or not the striding pattern of a particular array matches the C-style contiguou
s or Fortran-style contiguous or neither.
 Whether or not the striding pattern matches a standard C or Fortran one
 can be tested Using 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ISCONTIGUOUS
\family default
(obj) and 
\family typewriter
PyArray_ISFORTRAN
\family default
(obj) respectively.
 Most third-party libraries expect contiguous arrays.
 But, often it is not difficult to support general-purpose striding.
 I encourage you to use the striding information in your own code whenever
 possible, and reserve single-segment requirements for wrapping third-party
 code.
 Using the striding information provided with the ndarray rather than requiring
 a contiguous striding reduces copying that otherwise must be made.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Example
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The following example shows how you might write a wrapper that accepts two
 input arguments (that will be converted to an array) and an output argument
 (that must be an array).
 The function returns None and updates the output array.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "extension module|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
static PyObject *
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
example_wrapper(PyObject *dummy, PyObject *args)
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
{
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyObject *arg1=NULL, *arg2=NULL, *out=NULL;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyObject *arr1=NULL, *arr2=NULL, *oarr=NULL;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code

\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

OOO&
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

, &arg1, *arg2,
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
        &PyArrayType, *out)) return NULL;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code

\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    arr1 = PyArray_FROM_OTF(arg1, NPY_DOUBLE, NPY_IN_ARRAY);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    if (arr1 == NULL) return NULL;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    arr2 = PyArray_FROM_OTF(arg2, NPY_DOUBLE, NPY_IN_ARRAY);  
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    if (arr2 == NULL) goto fail;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    oarr = PyArray_FROM_OTF(out, NPY_DOUBLE, NPY_INOUT_ARRAY);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    if (oarr == NULL) goto fail;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code

\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    /* code that makes use of arguments */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    /* You will probably need at least 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
       nd = PyArray_NDIM(<..>)    -- number of dimensions
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
       dims = PyArray_DIMS(<..>)  -- npy_intp array of length nd 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
                                     showing length in each dim.
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
       dptr = (double *)PyArray_DATA(<..>) -- pointer to data.
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
       If an error occurs goto fail.
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
     */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code

\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    Py_DECREF(arr1);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    Py_DECREF(arr2);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    Py_DECREF(oarr);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    Py_INCREF(Py_None);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    return Py_None;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
 fail:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    Py_XDECREF(arr1);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    Py_XDECREF(arr2);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyArray_XDECREF_ERR(oarr);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    return NULL;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Chapter
Beyond the Basics
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new
 eyes.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
Marcel Proust
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one
 else has thought.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Iterating over elements in the array
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Basic Iteration
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand label
name "sec:array_iterator"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "array iterator|("

\end_inset

One common algorithmic requirement is to be able to walk over all elements
 in a multidimensional array.
 The array iterator object makes this easy to do in a generic way that works
 for arrays of any dimension.
 Naturally, if you know the number of dimensions you will be using, then
 you can always write nested for loops to accomplish the iteration.
 If, however, you want to write code that works with any number of dimensions,
 then you can make use of the array iterator.
 An array iterator object is returned when accessing the .flat attribute
 of an array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Basic usage is to call 
\series bold
PyArray_IterNew
\series default
 (
\family typewriter
array
\family default
) where array is an ndarray object (or one of its sub-classes).
 The returned object is an array-iterator object (the same object returned
 by the .flat attribute of the ndarray).
 This object is usually cast to PyArrayIterObject* so that its members can
 be accessed.
 The only members that are needed are 
\family typewriter
iter->size
\family default
 which contains the total size of the array, 
\family typewriter
iter->index
\family default
, which contains the current 1-d index into the array, and 
\family typewriter
iter->dataptr
\family default
 which is a pointer to the data for the current element of the array.
 Sometimes it is also useful to access 
\family typewriter
iter->ao
\family default
 which is a pointer to the underlying ndarray object.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
After processing data at the current element of the array, the next element
 of the array can be obtained using the macro 
\series bold
PyArray_ITER_NEXT
\series default
(
\family typewriter
iter
\family default
).
 The iteration always proceeds in a C-style contiguous fashion (last index
 varying the fastest).
 The 
\series bold
PyArray_ITER_GOTO
\series default
(
\family typewriter
iter
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
destination
\family default
) can be used to jump to a particular point in the array, where 
\family typewriter
destination
\family default
 is an array of npy_intp data-type with space to handle at least the number
 of dimensions in the underlying array.
 Occasionally it is useful to use 
\series bold
PyArray_ITER_GOTO1D
\series default
(
\family typewriter
iter
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
index
\family default
) which will jump to the 1-d index given by the value of 
\family typewriter
index
\family default
.
 The most common usage, however, is given in the following example.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
PyObject *obj; /* assumed to be some ndarray object */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
PyArrayIterObject *iter;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
...
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
iter = (PyArrayIterObject *)PyArray_IterNew(obj);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
if (iter == NULL) goto fail;   /* Assume fail has clean-up code */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
while (iter->index < iter->size) {
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    /* do something with the data at it->dataptr */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyArray_ITER_NEXT(it);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
...
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
You can also use 
\series bold
PyArrayIter_Check
\series default
(
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
) to ensure you have an iterator object and 
\series bold
PyArray_ITER_RESET
\series default
(
\family typewriter
iter
\family default
) to reset an iterator object back to the beginning of the array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
It should be emphasized at this point that you may not need the array iterator
 if your array is already contiguous (using an array iterator will work
 but will be slower than the fastest code you could write).
 The major purpose of array iterators is to encapsulate iteration over N-dimensi
onal arrays with arbitrary strides.
 They are used in many, many places in the NumPy source code itself.
 If you already know your array is contiguous (Fortran or C), then simply
 adding the element-size to a running pointer variable will step you through
 the array very efficiently.
 In other words, code like this will probably be faster for you in the contiguou
s case (assuming doubles).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
npy_intp size;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
double *dptr;  /* could make this any variable type */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
size = PyArray_SIZE(obj);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
dptr = PyArray_DATA(obj);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
while(size--) {
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
   /* do something with the data at dptr */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
   dptr++;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Iterating over all but one axis
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A common algorithm is to loop over all elements of an array and perform
 some function with each element by issuing a function call.
 As function calls can be time consuming, one way to speed up this kind
 of algorithm is to write the function so it takes a vector of data and
 then write the iteration so the function call is performed for an entire
 dimension of data at a time.
 This increases the amount of work done per function call, thereby reducing
 the function-call over-head to a small(er) fraction of the total time.
 Even if the interior of the loop is performed without a function call it
 can be advantageous to perform the inner loop over the dimension with the
 highest number of elements to take advantage of speed enhancements available
 on micro-processors that use pipelining to enhance fundmental operations.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The 
\series bold
PyArray_IterAllButAxis
\series default
(
\family typewriter
array
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
&dim
\family default
) constructs an iterator object that is modified so that it will not iterate
 over the dimension indicated by dim.
 The only restriction on this iterator object, is that the 
\series bold
PyArray_Iter_GOTO1D
\series default
(
\family typewriter
it
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
ind
\family default
) macro cannot be used (thus flat indexing won't work either if you pass
 this object back to Python --- so you shouldn't do this).
 Note that the returned object from this routine is still usually cast to
 PyArrayIterObject *.
 All that's been done is to modify the strides and dimensions of the returned
 iterator to simulate iterating over array[...,0,...] where 0 is placed on the
 
\begin_inset Formula $\textrm{dim}^{\textrm{th}}$
\end_inset

 dimension.
 If dim is negative, then the dimension with the largest axis is found and
 used.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Iterating over multiple arrays
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Very often, it is desireable to iterate over several arrays at the same
 time.
 The universal functions are an example of this kind of behavior.
 If all you want to do is iterate over arrays with the same shape, then
 simply creating several iterator objects is the standard procedure.
 For example, the following code iterates over two arrays assumed to be
 the same shape and size (actually obj1 just has to have at least as many
 total elements as does obj2):
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
/* It is already assumed that obj1 and obj2
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
   are ndarrays of the same shape and size.
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
*/
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
iter1 = (PyArrayIterObject *)PyArray_IterNew(obj1);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
if (iter1 == NULL) goto fail;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
iter2 = (PyArrayIterObject *)PyArray_IterNew(obj2);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
if (iter2 == NULL) goto fail;  /* assume iter1 is DECREF'd at fail */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
while (iter2->index < iter2->size)  {
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    /* process with iter1->dataptr and iter2->dataptr */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyArray_ITER_NEXT(iter1);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyArray_ITER_NEXT(iter2);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Broadcasting over multiple arrays
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "broadcasting"

\end_inset

When multiple arrays are involved in an operation, you may want to use the
 same broadcasting rules that the math operations (
\emph on
i.e.

\emph default
 the ufuncs) use.
 This can be done easily using the PyArrayMultiIterObject.
 This is the object returned from the Python command numpy.broadcast and
 it is almost as easy to use from C.
 The function 
\series bold
PyArray_MultiIterNew
\series default
 (
\family typewriter
n
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
...
\family default
) is used (with 
\family typewriter
n
\family default
 input objects in place of 
\family typewriter
...
\family default
).
 The input objects can be arrays or anything that can be converted into
 an array.
 A pointer to a PyArrayMultiIterObject is returned.
 Broadcasting has already been accomplished which adjusts the iterators
 so that all that needs to be done to advance to the next element in each
 array is for PyArray_ITER_NEXT to be called for each of the inputs.
 This incrementing is automatically performed by 
\series bold
PyArray_MultiIter_NEXT
\series default
(
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
) macro (which can handle a multiterator 
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
 as either a PyArrayMultiObject* or a PyObject*).
 The data from input number 
\family typewriter
i
\family default
 is available using 
\series bold
PyArray_MultiIter_DATA
\series default
(
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
i
\family default
) and the total (broadcasted) size as 
\series bold
PyArray_MultiIter_SIZE
\series default
(
\family typewriter
obj
\family default
).
 An example of using this feature follows.
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
mobj = PyArray_MultiIterNew(2, obj1, obj2);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
size = PyArray_MultiIter_SIZE(obj);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
while(size--) {
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    ptr1 = PyArray_MultiIter_DATA(mobj, 0);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    ptr2 = PyArray_MultiIter_DATA(mobj, 1);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    /* code using contents of ptr1 and ptr2 */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    PyArray_MultiIter_NEXT(mobj);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The function 
\series bold
PyArray_RemoveLargest
\series default
(
\family typewriter
multi
\family default
) can be used to take a multi-iterator object and adjust all the iterators
 so that iteration does not take place over the largest dimension (it makes
 that dimension of size 1).
 The code being looped over that makes use of the pointers will very-likely
 also need the strides data for each of the iterators.
 This information is stored in multi->iters[i]->strides.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There are several examples of using the multi-iterator in the NumPy source
 code as it makes N-dimensional broadcasting-code very simple to write.
 Browse the source for more examples.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "array iterator|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Creating a new universal function
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand label
name "sec:Creating-a-new"

\end_inset


\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc!adding new|("

\end_inset

The umath module is a computer-generated C-module that creates many ufuncs.
 It provides a great many examples of how to create a universal function.
 Creating your own ufunc that will make use of the ufunc machinery is not
 difficult either.
 Suppose you have a function that you want to operate element-by-element
 over its inputs.
 By creating a new ufunc you will obtain a function that handles
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
broadcasting 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
N-dimensional looping
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
automatic type-conversions with minimal memory usage
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
optional output arrays
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
It is not difficult to create your own ufunc.
 All that is required is a 1-d loop for each data-type you want to support.
 Each 1-d loop must have a specific signature, and only ufuncs for fixed-size
 data-types can be used.
 The function call used to create a new ufunc to work on built-in data-types
 is given below.
 A different mechanism is used to register ufuncs for user-defined data-types.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_FromFuncAndData (
\family typewriter
PyObject*
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyUFuncGenericFunction*
\family default
 func, 
\family typewriter
void**
\family default
 data, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 types, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 ntypes, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nin, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 nout, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 identity, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 name, 
\family typewriter
char*
\family default
 doc, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 check_return)
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
func A pointer to an array of 1-d functions to use.
 This array must be at least ntypes long.
 Each entry in the array must be a 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncGenericFunction
\family default
 function.
 This function has the following signature.
 An example of a valid 1d loop function is also given.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 
\family typewriter
void
\family default
 loop1d (
\family typewriter
char**
\family default
 args, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 dimensions, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp*
\family default
 steps, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data)
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Description
args An array of pointers to the actual data for the input and output arrays.
 The input arguments are given first followed by the output arguments.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
dimensions A pointer to the size of the dimension over which this function
 is looping.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
steps A pointer to the number of bytes to jump to get to the next element
 in this dimension for each of the input and output arguments.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
data Arbitrary data (extra arguments, function names, 
\emph on
etc.
\emph default
) that can be stored with the ufunc and will be passed in when it is called.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout LyX-Code
static void
\newline
double_add(char *args, npy_intp *dimensions, npy_intp *steps,
 void *extra)
\newline
{
\newline
    npy_intp i;
\newline
    npy_intp is1=steps[0], is2=steps[1];
\newline
  
  npy_intp os=steps[2], n=dimensions[0];
\newline
    char *i1=args[0], *i2=args[1],
 *op=args[2];
\newline
    for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
\newline
        *((double *)op) = *((double
 *)i1) + 
\backslash

\newline
                          *((double *)i2);
\newline
        i1 += is1; i2 += is2;
 op += os;
\newline
     }
\newline
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
data An array of data.
 There should be ntypes entries (or NULL) --- one for every loop function
 defined for this ufunc.
 This data will be passed in to the 1-d loop.
 One common use of this data variable is to pass in an actual function to
 call to compute the result when a generic 1-d loop (e.g.
 PyUFunc_d_d) is being used.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
types An array of type-number signatures (type 
\family typewriter
char
\family default
).
 This array should be of size (nin+nout)*ntypes and contain the data-types
 for the corresponding 1-d loop.
 The inputs should be first followed by the outputs.
 For example, suppose I have a ufunc that supports 1 integer and 1 double
 1-d loop (length-2 func and data arrays) that takes 2 inputs and returns
 1 output that is always a complex double, then the types array would be
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
char my_sigs[] = 
\backslash

\newline
{NPY_INT, NPY_INT, NPY_CDOUBLE, 
\newline
NPY_DOUBLE, NPY_DOUBLE, NPY_CDOUBLE};
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 The bit-width names can also be used (e.g.
 
\family typewriter
NPY_INT32
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
NPY_COMPLEX128
\family default
) if desired.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ntypes The number of data-types supported.
 This is equal to the number of 1-d loops provided.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nin The number of input arguments.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
nout The number of output arguments.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
identity Either 
\series bold
PyUFunc_One
\series default
, 
\series bold
PyUFunc_Zero
\series default
, 
\series bold
PyUFunc_None
\series default
.
 This specifies what should be returned when an empty array is passed to
 the reduce method of the ufunc.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
name A 
\family typewriter
NULL
\family default
-terminated string providing the name of this ufunc (should be the Python
 name it will be called).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
doc A documentation string for this ufunc (will be used in generating the
 response to <ufunc_name>.__doc__).
 Do not include the function signature or the name as this is generated
 automatically.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
check_return Not presently used, but this integer value does get set in
 the structure-member of similar name.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Standard
The returned ufunc object is a callable Python object.
 It should be placed in a (module) dictionary under the same name as was
 used in the name argument to the ufunc-creation routine.
 The following example is adapted from the umath module:
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc!adding new|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
static PyUFuncGenericFunction atan2_functions[]=
\backslash

\newline
    {PyUFunc_ff_f, PyUFunc_dd_d,
\newline
     PyUFunc_gg_g, PyUFunc_OO_O_method};
\newline
static
 void* atan2_data[]=
\backslash
 
\newline
    {(void *)atan2f,(void *) atan2,
\newline
     (void *)atan2l,(void *)"arctan2"};
\newline
stati
c char atan2_signatures[]=
\backslash

\newline
    {NPY_FLOAT, NPY_FLOAT, NPY_FLOAT,
\newline
     NPY_DOUBLE, NPY_DOUBLE,
\newline
     NPY_DOUBLE
, NPY_LONGDOUBLE,
\newline
     NPY_LONGDOUBLE, NPY_LONGDOUBLE
\newline
     NPY_OBJECT, NPY_OBJECT,
 
\newline
     NPY_OBJECT};
\newline
...
\newline
/* in the module initialization code */
\newline
PyObject *f, *dict,
 *module;
\newline
...
\newline
dict = PyModule_GetDict(module);
\newline
...
\newline
f = PyUFunc_FromFuncAndData(atan2_funct
ions, 
\newline
    atan2_data, atan2_signatures, 4, 2, 1, 
\newline
    PyUFunc_None, "arctan2",
 
\newline
    "a safe and correct arctan(x1/x2)", 0);
\newline
PyDict_SetItemString(dict, "arctan2"
, f);
\newline
Py_DECREF(f);
\newline
...
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
User-defined data-types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "dtype!adding new|("

\end_inset

NumPy comes with 21 builtin data-types.
 While this covers a large majority of possible use cases, it is conceivable
 that a user may have a need for an additional data-type.
 There is some support for adding an additional data-type into the NumPy
 system.
 This additional data-type will behave much like a regular data-type except
 ufuncs must have 1-d loops registered to handle it separately.
 Also checking for whether or not other data-types can be cast 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

safely
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 to and from this new type or not will always return 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

can cast
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 unless you also register which types your new data-type can be cast to
 and from.
 Adding data-types is one of the less well-tested areas for NumPy 1.0, so
 there may be bugs remaining in the approach.
 Only add a new data-type if you can't do what you want to do using the
 OBJECT or VOID data-types that are already available.
 As an example of what I consider a useful application of the ability to
 add data-types is the possibility of adding a data-type of arbitrary precision
 floats to NumPy.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Adding the new data-type
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
To begin to make use of the new data-type, you need to first define a new
 Python type to hold the scalars of your new data-type.
 It should be acceptable to inherit from one of the array scalars if your
 new type has a binary compatible layout.
 This will allow your new data type to have the methods and attributes of
 array scalars.
 New data-types must have a fixed memory size (if you want to define a data-type
 that needs a flexible representation, like a variable-precision number,
 then use a pointer to the object as the data-type).
 The memory layout of the object structure for the new Python type must
 be PyObject_HEAD followed by the fixed-size memory needed for the data-type.
 For example, a suitable structure for the new Python type is:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
typedef struct {
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
   PyObject_HEAD;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
   some_data_type obval; 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
   /* the name can be whatever you want */
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
} PySomeDataTypeObject;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
After you have defined a new Python type object, you must then define a
 new PyArray_Descr structure whose typeobject member will contain a pointer
 to the data-type you've just defined.
 In addition, the required functions in the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

.f
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 member must be defined: nonzero, copyswap, copyswapn, setitem, getitem,
 and cast.
 The more functions in the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

.f
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 member you define, however, the more useful the new data-type will be.
 It is very important to intialize unused functions to NULL.
 This can be achieved using 
\series bold
PyArray_InitArrFuncs
\series default
(f).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Once a new PyArray_Descr structure is created and filled with the needed
 information and useful functions you call 
\series bold
PyArray_RegisterDataType
\series default
(new_descr).
 The return value from this call is an integer providing you with a unique
 type_number that specifies your data-type.
 This type number should be stored and made available by your module so
 that other modules can use it to recognize your data-type (the other mechanism
 for finding a user-defined data-type number is to search based on the name
 of the type-object associated with the data-type using 
\series bold
PyArray_TypeNumFromName
\series default
).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Registering a casting function
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
You may want to allow builtin (and other user-defined) data-types to be
 cast automatically to your data-type.
 In order to make this possible, you must register a casting function with
 the data-type you want to be able to cast from.
 This requires writing low-level casting functions for each conversion you
 want to support and then registering these functions with the data-type
 descriptor.
 A low-level casting function has the signature.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
castfunc (
\family typewriter
void
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 from, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 to, 
\family typewriter
npy_intp
\family default
 n, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 fromarr, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 toarr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Cast 
\family typewriter
n
\family default
 elements 
\family typewriter
from
\family default
 one type 
\family typewriter
to
\family default
 another.
 The data to cast from is in a contiguous, correctly-swapped and aligned
 chunk of memory pointed to by from.
 The buffer to cast to is also contiguous, correctly-swapped and aligned.
 The fromarr and toarr arguments should only be used for flexible-element-sized
 arrays (string, unicode, void).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
An example castfunc is 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
static void
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
double_to_float(double *from, float* to, npy_intp n,
\newline
       void* ig1, void*
 ig2);
\newline
while (n--) {
\newline
      (*to++) = (double) *(from++);
\newline
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This could then be registered to convert doubles to floats using the code
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
doub = PyArray_DescrFromType(NPY_DOUBLE);
\newline
PyArray_RegisterCastFunc(doub,
 NPY_FLOAT,
\newline
     (PyArray_VectorUnaryFunc *)double_to_float);
\newline
Py_DECREF(doub);
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Registering coercion rules
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
By default, all user-defined data-types are not presumed to be safely castable
 to any builtin data-types.
 In addition builtin data-types are not presumed to be safely castable to
 user-defined data-types.
 This situation limits the ability of user-defined data-types to participate
 in the coercion system used by ufuncs and other times when automatic coercion
 takes place in NumPy.
 This can be changed by registering data-types as safely castable from a
 particlar data-type object.
 The function 
\series bold
PyArray_RegisterCanCast
\series default
 (from_descr, totype_number, scalarkind) should be used to specify that
 the data-type object from_descr can be cast to the data-type with type
 number totype_number.
 If you are not trying to alter scalar coercion rules, then use 
\series bold
PyArray_NOSCALAR
\series default
 for the scalarkind argument.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
If you want to allow your new data-type to also be able to share in the
 scalar coercion rules, then you need to specify the scalarkind function
 in the data-type object's 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

.f
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 member to return the kind of scalar the new data-type should be seen as
 (the value of the scalar is available to that function).
 Then, you can register data-types that can be cast to separately for each
 scalar kind that may be returned from your user-defined data-type.
 If you don't register scalar coercion handling, then all of your user-defined
 data-types will be seen as 
\series bold
PyArray_NOSCALAR
\series default
.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Registering a ufunc loop
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
You may also want to register low-level ufunc loops for your data-type so
 that an ndarray of your data-type can have math applied to it seamlessly.
 Registering a new loop with exactly the same arg_types signature, silently
 replaces any previously registered loops for that data-type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Before you can register a 1-d loop for a ufunc, the ufunc must be previously
 created.
 Then you call 
\series bold
PyUFunc_RegisterLoopForType
\series default
(...) with the information needed for the loop.
 The return value of this function is 
\family typewriter
0
\family default
 if the process was successful and 
\family typewriter
-1
\family default
 with an error condition set if it was not successful.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
PyUFunc_RegisterLoopForType (
\family typewriter
int
\family default
) (
\family typewriter
PyUFuncObject*
\family default
 ufunc, 
\family typewriter
int
\family default
 usertype, 
\family typewriter
PyUFuncGenericFunction
\family default
 function, 
\family typewriter
int*
\family default
 arg_types, 
\family typewriter
void*
\family default
 data)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ufunc The ufunc to attach this loop to.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
usertype The user-defined type this loop should be indexed under.
 This number must be a user-defined type or an error occurs.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
function The ufunc inner 1-d loop.
 This function must have the signature as explained in Section 
\begin_inset LatexCommand ref
reference "sec:Creating-a-new"

\end_inset

.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
arg_types (optional) If given, this should contain an array of integers
 of at least size ufunc.nargs containing the data-types expected by the loop
 function.
 The data will be copied into a NumPy-managed structure so the memory for
 this argument should be deleted after calling this function.
 If this is NULL, then it will be assumed that all data-types are of type
 usertype.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
data (optional) Specify any optional data needed by the function which will
 be passed when the function is called.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "dtype!adding new|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Subtyping the ndarray in C
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ndarray!subtyping|("

\end_inset

One of the lesser-used features that has been lurking in Python since 2.2
 is the ability to sub-class types in C.
 This facility is one of the important reasons for basing NumPy off of the
 Numeric code-base which was already in C.
 A sub-type in C allows much more flexibility with regards to memory management.
 Sub-typing in C is not difficult even if you have only a rudimentary understand
ing of how to create new types for Python.
 While it is easiest to sub-type from a single parent type, sub-typing from
 multiple parent types is also possible.
 Multiple inheritence in C is generally less useful than it is in Python
 because a restriction on Python sub-types is that they have a binary compatible
 memory layout.
 Perhaps for this reason, it is somewhat easier to sub-type from a single
 parent type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
All C-structures corresponding to Python objects must begin with PyObject_HEAD
 (or PyObject_VAR_HEAD).
 In the same way, any sub-type must have a C-structure that begins with
 exactly the same memory layout as the parent type (or all of the parent
 types in the case of multiple-inheritance).
 The reason for this is that Python may attempt to access a member of the
 sub-type structure as if it had the parent structure (
\emph on
i.e.

\emph default
 it will cast a given pointer to a pointer to the parent structure and then
 dereference one of it's members).
 If the memory layouts are not compatible, then this attempt will cause
 unpredictable behavior (eventually leading to a memory violation and program
 crash).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
One of the elements in PyObject_HEAD is a pointer to a type-object structure.
 A new Python type is created by creating a new type-object structure and
 populating it with functions and pointers to describe the desired behavior
 of the type.
 Typically, a new C-structure is also created to contain the instance-specific
 information needed for each object of the type as well.
 For example, &PyArray_Type is a pointer to the type-object table for the
 ndarray while a PyArrayObject* variable is a pointer to a particular instance
 of an ndarray (one of the members of the ndarray structure is, in turn,
 a pointer to the type-object table &PyArray_Type).
 Finally 
\series bold
PyType_Ready
\series default
(<pointer_to_type_object>) must be called for every new Python type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Creating sub-types
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
To create a sub-type, a similar proceedure must be followed except only
 behaviors that are different require new entries in the type-object structure.
 All other entires can be NULL and will be filled in by 
\series bold
PyType_Ready
\series default
 with appropriate functions from the parent type(s).
 In particular, to create a sub-type in C follow these steps:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
If needed create a new C-structure to handle each instance of your type.
 A typical C-structure would be
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout LyX-Code
typedef _new_struct {
\newline
    PyArrayObject base;
\newline
    /* new things here */
\newline
} NewArrayO
bject;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Notice that the full PyArrayObject is used as the first entry in order to
 ensure that the binary layout of instances of the new type is identical
 to the PyArrayObject.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Enumerate
Fill in a new Python type-object structure with pointers to new functions
 that will over-ride the default behavior while leaving any function that
 should remain the same unfilled (or NULL).
 The tp_name element should be different.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Fill in the tp_base member of the new type-object structure with a pointer
 to the (main) parent type object.
 For multiple-inheritance, also fill in the tp_bases member with a tuple
 containing all of the parent objects in the order they should be used to
 define inheritance.
 Remember, all parent-types must have the same C-structure for multiple
 inheritance to work properly.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Call 
\series bold
PyType_Ready
\series default
(<pointer_to_new_type>).
 If this function returns a negative number, a failure occurred and the
 type is not initialized.
 Otherwise, the type is ready to be used.
 It is generally important to place a reference to the new type into the
 module dictionary so it can be accessed from Python.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
More information on creating sub-types in C can be learned by reading PEP
 253 (available at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0253).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Specific features of ndarray sub-typing
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Some special methods and attributes are used by arrays in order to facilitate
 the interoperation of sub-types with the base ndarray type.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
The __array_finalize__ method
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Several array-creation functions of the ndarray allow specification of a
 particular sub-type to be created.
 This allows sub-types to be handled seamlessly in many routines.
 When a sub-type is created in such a fashion, however, neither the __new__
 method nor the __init__ method gets called.
 Instead, the sub-type is allocated and the appropriate instance-structure
 members are filled in.
 Finally, the 
\series bold
__array_finalize__
\series default
 attribute is looked-up in the object dictionary.
 If it is present and not None, then it can be either a CObject containing
 a pointer to a 
\series bold
PyArray_FinalizeFunc
\series default
 or it can be a method taking a single argument (which could be None).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
If the 
\series bold
__array_finalize__
\series default
 attribute is a CObject, then the pointer must be a pointer to a function
 with the signature:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 (int) (PyArrayObject *, PyObject *)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The first argument is the newly created sub-type.
 The second argument (if not NULL) is the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

parent
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 array (if the array was created using slicing or some other operation where
 a clearly-distinguishable parent is present).
 This routine can do anything it wants to.
 It should return a -1 on error and 0 otherwise.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
If the 
\series bold
__array_finalize__
\series default
 attribute is not None nor a CObject, then it must be a Python method that
 takes the parent array as an argument (which could be None if there is
 no parent), and returns nothing.
 Errors in this method will be caught and handled.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
The __array_priority__ attribute
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This attribute allows simple but flexible determination of which sub-type
 should be considered 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

primary
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 when an operation involving two or more sub-types arises.
 In operations where different sub-types are being used, the sub-type with
 the largest 
\series bold
__array_priority__
\series default
 attribute will determine the sub-type of the output(s).
 If two sub-types have the same 
\series bold
__array_prioirty__
\series default
 then the sub-type of the first argument determines the output.
 The default 
\series bold
__array_priority__
\series default
 attribute returns a value of 0.0 for the base ndarray type and 1.0 for a
 sub-type.
 This attribute can also be defined by objects that are not sub-types of
 the ndarray and can be used to determine which 
\series bold
__array_wrap__
\series default
 method should be called for the return output.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
The __array_wrap__ method
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Any class or type can define this method which should take an ndarray argument
 and return an instance of the type.
 It can be seen as the opposite of the 
\series bold
__array__
\series default
 method.
 This method is used by the ufuncs (and other NumPy functions) to allow
 other objects to pass through.
 For Python >2.4, it can also be used to write a decorator that converts
 a function that works only with ndarrays to one that works with any type
 with 
\series bold
__array__
\series default
 and 
\series bold
__array_wrap__
\series default
 methods.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ndarray!subtyping|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Chapter
Using Python as glue
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
Michel de Montaigne
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
Duct tape is like the force.
 It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
Carl Zwanzig
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Many people like to say that Python is a fantastic glue language.
 Hopefully, this Chapter will convince you that this is true.
 The first adopters of Python for science were typically people who used
 it to glue together large applicaton codes running on super-computers.
 Not only was it much nicer to code in Python than in a shell script or
 Perl, in addition, the ability to easily extend Python made it relatively
 easy to create new classes and types specifically adapted to the problems
 being solved.
 From the interactions of these early contributors, Numeric emerged as an
 array-like object that could be used to pass data between these applications.
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\begin_layout Standard
As Numeric has matured and developed into NumPy, people have been able to
 write more code directly in NumPy.
 Often this code is fast-enough for production use, but there are still
 times that there is a need to access compiled code.
 Either to get that last bit of efficiency out of the algorithm or to make
 it easier to access widely-available codes written in C/C++ or Fortran.
 
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This chapter will review many of the tools that are available for the purpose
 of accessing code written in other compiled languages.
 There are many resources available for learning to call other compiled
 libraries from Python and the purpose of this Chapter is not to make you
 an expert.
 The main goal is to make you aware of some of the possibilities so that
 you will know what to 
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Google
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 in order to learn more.
 
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The http://www.scipy.org website also contains a great deal of useful information
 about many of these tools.
 For example, there is a nice description of using several of the tools
 explained in this chapter at http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython.
 This link provides several ways to solve the same problem showing how to
 use and connect with compiled code to get the best performance.
 In the process you can get a taste for several of the approaches that will
 be discussed in this chapter.
 
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Calling other compiled libraries from Python
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\begin_layout Standard
While Python is a great language and a pleasure to code in, its dynamic
 nature results in overhead that can cause some code (
\emph on
i.e.

\emph default
 raw computations inside of for loops) to be up 10-100 times slower than
 equivalent code written in a static compiled language.
 In addition, it can cause memory usage to be larger than necessary as temporary
 arrays are created and destroyed during computation.
 For many types of computing needs the extra slow-down and memory consumption
 can often not be spared (at least for time- or memory-critical portions
 of your code).
 Therefore one of the most common needs is to call out from Python code
 to a fast, machine-code routine (e.g.
 compiled using C/C++ or Fortran).
 The fact that this is relatively easy to do is a big reason why Python
 is such an excellent high-level language for scientific and engineering
 programming.
 
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\begin_layout Standard
Their are two basic approaches to calling compiled code: writing an extension
 module that is then imported to Python using the import command, or calling
 a shared-library subroutine directly from Python using the ctypes module
 (included in the standard distribution with Python 2.5).
 The first method is the most common (but with the inclusion of ctypes into
 Python 2.5 this status may change).
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\begin_layout Warning
Calling C-code from Python can result in Python crashes if you are not careful.
 None of the approaches in this chapter are immune.
 You have to know something about the way data is handled by both NumPy
 and by the third-party library being used.
 
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Hand-generated wrappers
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\begin_layout Standard
Extension modules were discussed in Chapter 
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reference "sec:Writing-an-extension"

\end_inset

.
 The most basic way to interface with compiled code is to write an extension
 module and construct a module method that calls the compiled code.
 For improved readability, your method should take advantage of the PyArg_ParseT
uple call to convert between Python objects and C data-types.
 For standard C data-types there is probably already a built-in converter.
 For others you may need to write your own converter and use the 
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 format string which allows you to specify a function that will be used
 to perform the conversion from the Python object to whatever C-structures
 are needed.
 
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Once the conversions to the appropriate C-structures and C data-types have
 been performed, the next step in the wrapper is to call the underlying
 function.
 This is straightforward if the underlying function is in C or C++.
 However, in order to call Fortran code you must be familiar with how Fortran
 subroutines are called from C/C++ using your compiler and platform.
 This can vary somewhat platforms and compilers (which is another reason
 f2py makes life much simpler for interfacing Fortran code) but generally
 involves underscore mangling of the name and the fact that all variables
 are passed by reference (i.e.
 all arguments are pointers).
 
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The advantage of the hand-generated wrapper is that you have complete control
 over how the C-library gets used and called which can lead to a lean and
 tight interface with minimal over-head.
 The disadvantage is that you have to write, debug, and maintain C-code,
 although most of it can be adapted using the time-honored technique of
 
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cutting-pasting-and-modifying
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 from other extension modules.
 Because, the procedure of calling out to additional C-code is fairly regimented
, code-generation procedures have been developed to make this process easier.
 One of these code-generation techniques is distributed with NumPy and allows
 easy integration with Fortran and (simple) C code.
 This package, f2py, will be covered briefly in the next session.
 
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f2py
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\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "f2py|("

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F2py allows you to automatically construct an extension module that interfaces
 to routines in Fortran 77/90/95 code.
 It has the ability to parse Fortran 77/90/95 code and automatically generate
 Python signatures for the subroutines it encounters, or you can guide how
 the subroutine interfaces with Python by constructing an interface-defintion-fi
le (or modifying the f2py-produced one).
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
Creating source for a basic extension module
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\begin_layout Standard
Probably the easiest way to introduce f2py is to offer a simple example.
 Here is one of the subroutines contained in a file named add.f
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C
\newline
      SUBROUTINE ZADD(A,B,C,N)
\newline
C
\newline
      DOUBLE COMPLEX A(*)
\newline
      DOUBLE COMPLEX
 B(*)
\newline
      DOUBLE COMPLEX C(*)
\newline
      INTEGER N
\newline
      DO 20 J = 1, N
\newline
      
   C(J) = A(J)+B(J)
\newline
 20   CONTINUE
\newline
      END  
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\begin_layout Standard
This routine simply adds the elements in two contiguous arrays and places
 the result in a third.
 The memory for all three arrays must be provided by the calling routine.
 A very basic interface to this routine can be automatically generated by
 f2py:
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
f2py -m add add.f
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\begin_layout Standard
You should be able to run this command assuming your search-path is set-up
 properly.
 This command will produce an extension module named addmodule.c in the current
 directory.
 This extension module can now be compiled and used from Python just like
 any other extension module.
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
Creating a compiled extension module
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
You can also get f2py to compile add.f and also compile its produced extension
 module leaving only a shared-library extension file that can be imported
 from Python: 
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
f2py -c -m add add.f
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\begin_layout Standard
This command leaves a file named add.<ext> in the current directory (where
 <ext> is the appropriate extension for a python extension module on your
 platform --- so, pyd, 
\emph on
etc.
\emph default
).
 This module may then be imported from Python.
 It will contain a method for each subroutin in add (zadd, cadd, dadd, sadd).
 The docstring of each method contains information about how the module
 method may be called:
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
>>> import add
\newline
>>> print add.zadd.__doc__
\newline
zadd - Function signature: 
\newline
  zadd(a,b,c,n)
\newline

Required arguments: 
\newline
  a : input rank-1 array('D') with bounds (*)
\newline
  b : input
 rank-1 array('D') with bounds (*)
\newline
  c : input rank-1 array('D') with bounds
 (*)
\newline
  n : input int   
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\begin_layout Subsection
Improving the basic interface
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The default interface is a very literal translation of the fortran code
 into Python.
 The Fortran array arguments must now be NumPy arrays and the integer argument
 should be an integer.
 The interface will attempt to convert all arguments to their required types
 (and shapes) and issue an error if unsuccessful.
 However, because it knows nothing about the semantics of the arguments
 (such that C is an output and n should really match the array sizes), it
 is possible to abuse this function in ways that can cause Python to crash.
 For example
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
>>> add.zadd([1,2,3],[1,2],[3,4],1000)
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\begin_layout Standard
will cause a program crash on most systems.
 Under the covers, the lists are being converted to proper arrays but then
 the underlying add loop is told to cycle way beyond the borders of the
 allocated memory.
 
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\begin_layout Standard
In order to improve the interface, directives should be provided.
 This is accomplished by constructing an interface definition file.
 It is usually best to start from the interface file that f2py can produce
 (where it gets its default behavior from).
 To get f2py to generate the interface file use the -h option:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
f2py -h add.pyf -m add add.f
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This command leaves the file add.pyf in the current directory.
 The section of this file corresponding to zadd is:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
subroutine zadd(a,b,c,n) ! in :add:add.f 
\newline
   double complex dimension(*) ::
 a 
\newline
   double complex dimension(*) :: b 
\newline
   double complex dimension(*) ::
 c 
\newline
   integer :: n 
\newline
end subroutine zadd
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
By placing intent directives and checking code, the interface can be cleaned
 up quite a bit until the Python module method is both easier to use and
 more robust.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
subroutine zadd(a,b,c,n) ! in :add:add.f 
\newline
   double complex dimension(n) ::
 a 
\newline
   double complex dimension(n) :: b 
\newline
   double complex intent(out),dimension(n
) :: c 
\newline
   integer intent(hide),depend(a) :: n=len(a) 
\newline
end subroutine zadd
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The intent directive, intent(out) is used to tell f2py that 
\family typewriter
c
\family default
 is an output variable and should be created by the interface before being
 passed to the underlying code.
 The intent(hide) directive tells f2py to not allow the user to specify
 the variable, 
\family typewriter
n
\family default
, but instead to get it from the size of 
\family typewriter
a
\family default
.
 The depend(
\family typewriter
a
\family default
) directive is necessary to tell f2py that the value of n depends on the
 input a (so that it won't try to create the variable n until the variable
 a is created).
 
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\begin_layout Standard
The new interface has docstring:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
>>> print add.zadd.__doc__
\newline
zadd - Function signature: 
\newline
  c = zadd(a,b) 
\newline
Required
 arguments: 
\newline
  a : input rank-1 array('D') with bounds (n) 
\newline
  b : input rank-1
 array('D') with bounds (n) 
\newline
Return objects: 
\newline
  c : rank-1 array('D') with
 bounds (n) 
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\begin_layout Standard
Now, the function can be called in a much more robust way: 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
>>> add.zadd([1,2,3],[4,5,6])
\newline
array([ 5.+0.j,  7.+0.j,  9.+0.j])
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Notice the automatic conversion to the correct format that occurred.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Inserting directives in Fortran source
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The nice interface can also be generated automatically by placing the variable
 directives as special comments in the original fortran code.
 Thus, if I modify the source code to contain:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
C
\newline
      SUBROUTINE ZADD(A,B,C,N)
\newline
C
\newline
CF2PY INTENT(OUT) :: C
\newline
CF2PY INTENT(HIDE)
 :: N
\newline
CF2PY DOUBLE COMPLEX :: A(N)
\newline
CF2PY DOUBLE COMPLEX :: B(N)
\newline
CF2PY DOUBLE
 COMPLEX :: C(N)
\newline
      DOUBLE COMPLEX A(*)
\newline
      DOUBLE COMPLEX B(*)
\newline
     
 DOUBLE COMPLEX C(*)
\newline
      INTEGER N
\newline
      DO 20 J = 1, N
\newline
         C(J) = A(J)
 + B(J)
\newline
 20   CONTINUE
\newline
      END
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Then, I can compile the extension module using 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
f2py -c -m add add.f
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The resulting signature for the function add.zadd is exactly the same one
 that was created previously.
 If the original source code had contained A(N) instead of A(*) and so forth
 with B and C, then I could obtain (nearly) the same interface simply by
 placing the INTENT(OUT) :: C comment line in the source code.
 The only difference is that N would be an optional input that would default
 to the length of A.
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
A filtering example
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
For comparison with the other methods to be discussed.
 Here is another example of a function that filters a two-dimensional array
 of double precision floating-point numbers using a fixed averaging filter.
 The advantage of using Fortran to index into multi-dimensional arrays should
 be clear from this example.
 
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
      SUBROUTINE DFILTER2D(A,B,M,N)
\newline
C
\newline
      DOUBLE PRECISION A(M,N)
\newline
      DOUBLE
 PRECISION B(M,N)
\newline
      INTEGER N, M
\newline
CF2PY INTENT(OUT) :: B
\newline
CF2PY INTENT(HIDE)
 :: N
\newline
CF2PY INTENT(HIDE) :: M
\newline
      DO 20 I = 2,M-1
\newline
         DO 40 J=2,N-1
\newline

            B(I,J) = A(I,J) + 
\newline
     $           (A(I-1,J)+A(I+1,J) +
\newline
    
 $            A(I,J-1)+A(I,J+1) )*0.5D0 +
\newline
     $           (A(I-1,J-1) + A(I-1,J+1
) +
\newline
     $            A(I+1,J-1) + A(I+1,J+1))*0.25D0
\newline
 40      CONTINUE
\newline
 20
   CONTINUE
\newline
      END
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This code can be compiled and linked into an extension module named filter
 using 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
f2py -c -m filter filter.f
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This will produce an extension module named filter.so in the current directory
 with a method named dfilter2d that returns a filtered version of the input.
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
Calling f2py from Python
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The f2py program is written in Python and can be run from inside your module.
 This provides a facility that is somewhat similar to the use of weave.ext_tools
 described below.
 An example of the final interface executed using Python code is 
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
import numpy.f2py as f2py
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
fid = open('add.f')
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
source = fid.read()
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
fid.close()
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
f2py.compile(source, modulename='add')
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
import add
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\begin_layout Standard
The source string can be any valid Fortran code.
 If you want to save the extension-module source code then a suitable file-name
 can be provided by the source_fn keyword to the compile function.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Automatic extension module generation
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
If you want to distribute your f2py extension module, then you only need
 to include the .pyf file and the Fortran code.
 The distutils extensions in NumPy allow you to define an extension module
 entirely in terms of this interface file.
 A valid setup.py file allowing distribution of the add.f module (as part
 of the package f2py_examples so that it would be loaded as f2py_examples.add)
 is
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
def configuration(parent_package='', top_path=None)
\newline
    from numpy.distutils.misc_u
til import Configuration
\newline
    config = Configuration('f2py_examples',parent_packag
e, top_path)
\newline
    config.add_extension('add', sources=['add.pyf','add.f'])
\newline
  
  return config
\newline

\newline
if __name__ == '__main__':
\newline
    from numpy.distutils.core import
 setup
\newline
    setup(**configuration(top_path='').todict())
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\begin_layout Standard
Installation of the new package is easy using 
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\begin_layout LyX-Code
python setup.py install
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\begin_layout Standard
assuming you have the proper permissions to write to the main site-packages
 directory for the version of Python you are using.
 For the resulting package to work, you need to create a file named __init__.py
 (in the same directory as add.pyf).
 Notice the extension module is defined entirely in terms of the 
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add.pyf
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\end_inset

 and 
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\end_inset

add.f
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\end_inset

 files.
 The conversion of the .pyf file to a .c file is handled by numpy.disutils.
 
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\begin_layout Subsection
Conclusion
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The interface definition file (.pyf) is how you can fine-tune the interface
 between Python and Fortran.
 There is decent documentation for f2py found in the numpy/f2py/docs directory
 where-ever NumPy is installed on your system (usually under site-packages).
 There is also more information on using f2py (including how to use it to
 wrap C codes) at http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook under the 
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Using NumPy with Other Languages
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 heading.
 
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\begin_layout Standard
The f2py method of linking compiled code is currently the most sophisticated
 and integrated approach.
 It allows clean separation of Python with compiled code while still allowing
 for separate distribution of the extension module.
 The only draw-back is that it requires the existence of a Fortran compiler
 in order for a user to install the code.
 However, with the existence of the free-compilers g77, gfortran, and g95,
 as well as high-quality commerical compilers, this restriction is not particula
rly onerous.
 In my opinion, Fortran is still the easiest way to write fast and clear
 code for scientific computing.
 It handles complex numbers, and multi-dimensional indexing in the most
 straightforward way.
 Be aware, however, that some Fortran compilers will not be able to optimize
 code as well as good hand-written C-code.
 
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\begin_layout Section
weave
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\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "weave|("

\end_inset

Weave is a scipy package that can be used to automate the process of extending
 Python with C/C++ code.
 It can be used to speed up evaluation of an array expression that would
 otherwise create temporary variables, to directly 
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\end_inset

inline
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\end_inset

 C/C++ code into Python, or to create a fully-named extension module.
 You must either install scipy or get the weave package separately and install
 it using the standard python setup.py install.
 You must also have a C/C++-compiler installed and useable by Python distutils
 in order to use weave.
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\begin_layout Standard
Somewhat dated, but still useful documentation for weave can be found at
 the link http://www.scipy/Weave.
 There are also many examples found in the examples directory which is installed
 under the weave directory in the place where weave is installed on your
 system.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Speed up code involving arrays (also see scipy.numexpr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This is the easiest way to use weave and requires minimal changes to your
 Python code.
 It involves placing quotes around the expression of interest and calling
 weave.blitz.
 Weave will parse the code and generate C++ code using Blitz C++ arrays.
 It will then compile the code and catalog the shared library so that the
 next time this exact string is asked for (and the array types are the same),
 the already-compiled shared library will be loaded and used.
 Because Blitz makes extensive use of C++ templating, it can take a long
 time to compile the first time.
 After that, however, the code should evaluate more quickly than the equivalent
 NumPy expression.
 This is especially true if your array sizes are large and the expression
 would require NumPy to create several temporaries.
 Only expressions involving basic arithmetic operations and basic array
 slicing can be converted to Blitz C++ code.
 
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\begin_layout Standard
For example, consider the expression
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
d = 4*a + 5*a*b + 6*b*c
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
where a, b, and c are all arrays of the same type and shape.
 When the data-type is double-precision and the size is 1000x1000, this
 expression takes about 0.5 seconds to compute on an 1.1Ghz AMD Athlon machine.
 When this expression is executed instead using blitz:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
d = empty(a.shape, 'd'); weave.blitz(expr)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
execution time is only about 0.20 seconds (about 0.14 seconds spent in weave
 and the rest in allocating space for d).
 Thus, we've sped up the code by a factor of 2 using only a simnple command
 (weave.blitz).
 Your mileage may vary, but factors of 2-8 speed-ups are possible with this
 very simple technique.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
If you are interested in using weave in this way, then you should also look
 at scipy.numexpr which is another similar way to speed up expressions by
 eliminating the need for temporary variables.
 Using numexpr does not require a C/C++ compiler.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Inline C-code
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Probably the most widely-used method of employing weave is to 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

in-line
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 C/C++ code into Python in order to speed up a time-critical section of
 Python code.
 In this method of using weave, you define a string containing useful C-code
 and then pass it to the function 
\series bold
weave.inline
\series default
(
\family typewriter
code_string
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
variables
\family default
), where code_string is a string of valid C/C++ code and variables is a
 list of variables that should be passed in from Python.
 The C/C++ code should refer to the variables with the same names as they
 are defined with in Python.
 If weave.line should return anything the the special value return_val should
 be set to whatever object should be returned.
 The following example shows how to use weave on basic Python objects
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
code = r""" 
\newline
int i; 
\newline
py::tuple results(2); 
\newline
for (i=0; i<a.length(); i++) { 
\newline

     a[i] = i;
\newline
} 
\newline
results[0] = 3.0; 
\newline
results[1] = 4.0; 
\newline
return_val = results;
\newline
"""
 
\newline
a = [None]*10 
\newline
res = weave.inline(code,['a'])
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The C++ code shown in the code string uses the name 'a' to refer to the
 Python list that is passed in.
 Because the Python List is a mutable type, the elements of the list itself
 are modified by the C++ code.
 A set of C++ classes are used to access Python objects using simple syntax.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The main advantage of using C-code, however, is to speed up processing on
 an array of data.
 Accessing a NumPy array in C++ code using weave, depends on what kind of
 type converter is chosen in going from NumPy arrays to C++ code.
 The default converter creates 5 variables for the C-code for every NumPy
 array passed in to weave.inline.
 The following table shows these variables which can all be used in the
 C++ code.
 The table assumes that 
\family typewriter
myvar
\family default
 is the name of the array in Python with data-type <dtype> (i.e.
 float64, float32, int8, etc.)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\align center
\begin_inset Tabular
<lyxtabular version="3" rows="6" columns="3">
<features>
<column alignment="center" valignment="top" leftline="true" width="0">
<column alignment="center" valignment="top" leftline="true" width="0">
<column alignment="center" valignment="top" leftline="true" rightline="true" width="0">
<row topline="true" bottomline="true">
<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none">
\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
Variable
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none">
\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
Type
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
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\end_layout

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\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
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\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
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\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
</row>
<row topline="true">
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\begin_inset Text

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\begin_layout Standard
npy_intp*
\end_layout

\end_inset
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\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
A pointer to the dimensions array
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
</row>
<row topline="true">
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\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
Smyvar
\end_layout

\end_inset
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\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
npy_intp*
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" rightline="true" usebox="none">
\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
A pointer to the strides array
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
</row>
<row topline="true">
<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none">
\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
Dmyvar
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none">
\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
int
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" rightline="true" usebox="none">
\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
The number of dimensions
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
</row>
<row topline="true" bottomline="true">
<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none">
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myvar_array
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\begin_layout Standard
PyArrayObject*
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" rightline="true" usebox="none">
\begin_inset Text

\begin_layout Standard
The entire structure for the array
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
</row>
</lyxtabular>

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The in-lined code can contain references to any of these variables as well
 as to the standard macros MYVAR1(i), MYVAR2(i,j), MYVAR3(i,j,k), and MYVAR4(i,j
,k,l).
 These name-based macros (they are the Python name capitalized followed
 by the number of dimensions needed) will de-reference the memory for the
 array at the given location with no error checking (be-sure to use the
 correct macro and ensure the array is aligned and in correct byte-swap
 order in order to get useful results).
 The following code shows how you might use these variables and macros to
 code a loop in C that computes a simple 2-d weighted averaging filter.
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
int i,j;
\newline
for(i=1;i<Na[0]-1;i++) {
\newline
   for(j=1;j<Na[1]-1;j++) {
\newline
       B2(i,j)
 = A2(i,j) + (A2(i-1,j) +
\newline
                 A2(i+1,j)+A2(i,j-1)
\newline
          
       + A2(i,j+1))*0.5
\newline
                 + (A2(i-1,j-1)
\newline
                 +
 A2(i-1,j+1)
\newline
                 + A2(i+1,j-1)
\newline
                 + A2(i+1,j+1))*0.25
\newline

   }
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The above code doesn't have any error checking and so could fail with a
 Python crash if, 
\family typewriter
a
\family default
 had the wrong number of dimensions, or 
\family typewriter
b
\family default
 did not have the same shape as 
\family typewriter
a
\family default
.
 However, it could be placed inside a standard Python function with the
 necessary error checking to produce a robust but fast subroutine.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
One final note about weave.inline: if you have additional code you want to
 include in the final extension module such as supporting function calls,
 include statments, etc.
 you can pass this code in as a string using the keyword support_code: 
\family typewriter
weave.inline(code, variables, support_code=support)
\family default
.
 If you need the extension module to link against an additional library
 then you can also pass in distutils-style keyword arguments such as library_dir
s, libraries, and/or runtime_library_dirs which point to the appropriate
 libraries and directories.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Simplify creation of an extension module
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The inline function creates one extension module for each function to-be
 inlined.
 It also generates a lot of intermediate code that is duplicated for each
 extension module.
 If you have several related codes to execute in C, it would be better to
 make them all separate functions in a single extension module with multiple
 functions.
 You can also use the tools weave provides to produce this larger extension
 module.
 In fact, the weave.inline function just uses these more general tools to
 do its work.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The approach is to:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
construct a extension module object using ext_tools.ext_module(
\family typewriter
module_name
\family default
);
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
create function objects using ext_tools.ext_function(
\family typewriter
func_name
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
code
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
variables
\family default
); 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
(optional) add support code to the function using the .customize.add_support_code(
\family typewriter
support_code
\family default
) method of the function object;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
add the functions to the extension module object using the .add_function(
\family typewriter
func
\family default
) method;
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
when all the functions are added, compile the extension with its .compile()
 method.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Several examples are available in the examples directory where weave is
 installed on your system.
 Look particularly at ramp2.py, increment_example.py and fibonacii.py
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Conclusion
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Weave is a useful tool for quickly routines in C/C++ and linking them into
 Python.
 It's caching-mechanism allows for on-the-fly compilation which makes it
 particularly attractive for in-house code.
 Because of the requirement that the user have a C++-compiler, it can be
 difficult (but not impossible) to distribute a package that uses weave
 to other users who don't have a compiler installed.
 Of course, weave could be used to construct an extension module which is
 then distributed in the normal way 
\emph on
(
\emph default
using a setup.py file).
 While you can use weave to build larger extension modules with many methods,
 creating methods with a variable-number of arguments is not possible.
 Thus, for a more sophisticated module, you will still probably want a Python-la
yer that calls the weave-produced extension.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "weave|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Pyrex
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "pyrex|("

\end_inset

Pyrex is a way to write C-extension modules using Python-like syntax.
 It is an interesting way to generate extension modules that is growing
 in popularity, particularly among people who have rusty or non-existent
 C-skills.
 It does require the user to write the 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

interface
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 code and so is more time-consuming than SWIG or f2py if you are trying
 to interface to a large library of code.
 However, if you are writing an extension module that will include quite
 a bit of your own algorithmic code, as well, then Pyrex is a good match.
 A big weakness perhaps is the inability to easily and quickly access the
 elements of a multidimensional array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Notice that Pyrex is an extension-module generator only.
 Unlike weave or f2py, it includes no automatic facility for compiling and
 linking the extension module (which must be done in the usual fashion).
 It does provide a modified distutils class called build_ext which lets
 you build an extension module from a .pyx source.
 Thus, you could write in a setup.py file 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
from Pyrex.Distutils import build_ext
\newline
from distutils.extension import Extension
\newline
from
 distutils.core import setup
\newline

\newline
import numpy
\newline
py_ext = Extension('mine', ['mine.pyx'],
\newline

         include_dirs=[numpy.get_include()])
\newline

\newline
setup(name='mine', description='Nothi
ng', 
\newline
      ext_modules=[pyx_ext],
\newline
      cmdclass = {'build_ext':build_ext})
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Adding the NumPy include directory is, of course, only necessary if you
 are using NumPy arrays in the extension module (which is what I assume
 you are using Pyrex for).
 The distutils extensions in NumPy also include support for automatically
 producing the extension-module and linking it from a 
\family typewriter
.pyx
\family default
 file.
 It works so that if the user does not have Pyrex installed, then it looks
 for a file with the same file-name but a 
\family typewriter
.c
\family default
 extension which it then uses instead of trying to produce the 
\family typewriter
.c
\family default
 file again.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Pyrex does not natively understand NumPy arrays.
 However, it is not difficult to include information that lets Pyrex deal
 with them usefully.
 In fact, the numpy.random.mtrand module was written using Pyrex so an example
 of Pyrex usage is already included in the NumPy source distribution.
 That experience led to the creation of a standard c_numpy.pxd file that
 you can use to simplify interacting with NumPy array objects in a Pyrex-written
 extension.
 The file may not be complete (it wasn't at the time of this writing).
 If you have additions you'd like to contribute, please send them.
 The file is located in the .../site-packages/numpy/doc/pyrex directory where
 you have Python installed.
 There is also an example in that directory of using Pyrex to construct
 a simple extension module.
 It shows that Pyrex looks a lot like Python but also contains some new
 syntax that is necessary in order to get C-like speed.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
If you just use Pyrex to compile a standard Python module, then you will
 get a C-extension module that runs either as fast or, possibly, more slowly
 than the equivalent Python module.
 Speed increases are possible only when you use cdef to statically define
 C variables and use a special construct to create for loops:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
cdef int i
\newline
for i from start <= i < stop
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Let's look at two examples we've seen before to see how they might be implemente
d using Pyrex.
 These examples were compiled into extension modules using Pyrex-0.9.3.1.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Pyrex-add
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Here is part of a Pyrex-file I named add.pyx which implements the add functions
 we previously implemented using f2py: 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
cimport c_numpy
\newline
from c_numpy cimport import_array, ndarray, npy_intp, npy_cdouble
, 
\backslash

\newline
     npy_cfloat, NPY_DOUBLE, NPY_CDOUBLE, NPY_FLOAT, 
\backslash

\newline
     NPY_CFLOAT
\newline

\newline
#We need to initialize NumPy
\newline
import_array()
\newline

\newline
def zadd(object
 ao, object bo):
\newline
    cdef ndarray c, a, b
\newline
    cdef npy_intp i
\newline
    a = c_numpy.PyArra
y_ContiguousFromAny(ao, 
\newline
                  NPY_CDOUBLE, 1, 1)
\newline
    b = c_numpy.PyArr
ay_ContiguousFromAny(bo, 
\newline
                  NPY_CDOUBLE, 1, 1)
\newline
    c = c_numpy.PyAr
ray_SimpleNew(a.nd, a.dimensions,
\newline
                 a.descr.type_num)
\newline
    for i
 from 0 <= i < a.dimensions[0]:
\newline
        (<npy_cdouble *>c.data)[i].real = 
\backslash

\newline
             (<npy_cdouble *>a.data)[i].real + 
\backslash

\newline
             (<npy_cdouble *>b.data)[i].real
\newline
        (<npy_cdouble *>c.data)[i].imag
 = 
\backslash

\newline
             (<npy_cdouble *>a.data)[i].imag + 
\backslash

\newline
             (<npy_cdouble *>b.data)[i].imag
\newline
    return c
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This module shows use of the 
\family typewriter
cimport
\family default
 statement to load the definitions from the c_numpy.pxd file.
 As shown, both versions of the import statement are supported.
 It also shows use of the NumPy C-API to construct NumPy arrays from arbitrary
 input objects.
 The array c is created using PyArray_SimpleNew.
 Then the c-array is filled by addition.
 Casting to a particiular data-type is accomplished using <cast *>.
 Pointers are de-referenced with bracket notation and members of structures
 are accessed using '.' notation even if the object is techinically a pointer
 to a structure.
 The use of the special for loop construct ensures that the underlying code
 will have a similar C-loop so the addition calculation will proceed quickly.
 Notice that we have not checked for NULL after calling to the C-API ---
 a cardinal sin when writing C-code.
 For routines that return Python objects, Pyrex inserts the checks for NULL
 into the C-code for you and returns with failure if need be.
 There is also a way to get Pyrex to automatically check for exceptions
 when you call functions that don't return Python objects.
 See the documentation of Pyrex for details.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Pyrex-filter
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The two-dimensional example we created using weave is a bit uglierto implement
 in Pyrex because two-dimensional indexing using Pyrex is not as simple.
 But, it is straightforward (and possibly faster because of pre-computed
 indices).
 Here is the Pyrex-file I named image.pyx.
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
cimport c_numpy
\newline
from c_numpy cimport import_array, ndarray, npy_intp,
\backslash
 
\newline
     NPY_DOUBLE, NPY_CDOUBLE, 
\backslash

\newline
     NPY_FLOAT, NPY_CFLOAT, NPY_ALIGNED 
\backslash

\newline

\newline
#We need to initialize NumPy
\newline
import_array()
\newline
def filter(object ao):
\newline
    cdef
 ndarray a, b
\newline
    cdef npy_intp i, j, M, N, oS
\newline
    cdef npy_intp r,rm1,rp1,c,cm1,c
p1
\newline
    cdef double value
\newline
    # Require an ALIGNED array 
\newline
    # (but not necessarily
 contiguous)
\newline
    #  We will use strides to access the elements.
\newline
    a = c_numpy.PyAr
ray_FROMANY(ao, NPY_DOUBLE, 
\backslash

\newline
                2, 2, NPY_ALIGNED)
\newline
    b = c_numpy.PyArray_SimpleNew(a.nd,a.dimensio
ns, 
\backslash

\newline
                                  a.descr.type_num)
\newline
    M = a.dimensions[0]
\newline

    N = a.dimensions[1]
\newline
    S0 = a.strides[0]
\newline
    S1 = a.strides[1]
\newline
    for i
 from 1 <= i < M-1:
\newline
        r = i*S0
\newline
        rm1 = r-S0
\newline
        rp1 = r+S0
\newline

        oS = i*N
\newline
        for j from 1 <= j < N-1:
\newline
            c = j*S1
\newline
   
         cm1 = c-S1
\newline
            cp1 = c+S1
\newline
            (<double *>b.data)[oS+j]
 = 
\backslash

\newline
               (<double *>(a.data+r+c))[0] + 
\backslash

\newline
               ((<double *>(a.data+rm1+c))[0] + 
\backslash

\newline
                (<double *>(a.data+rp1+c))[0] + 
\backslash

\newline
                (<double *>(a.data+r+cm1))[0] + 
\backslash

\newline
                (<double *>(a.data+r+cp1))[0])*0.5 + 
\backslash

\newline
               ((<double *>(a.data+rm1+cm1))[0] + 
\backslash
 
\newline
                (<double *>(a.data+rp1+cm1))[0] + 
\backslash

\newline
                (<double *>(a.data+rp1+cp1))[0] + 
\backslash

\newline
                (<double *>(a.data+rm1+cp1))[0])*0.25
\newline
    return b
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This 2-d averaging filter runs quickly because the loop is in C and the
 pointer computations are done only as needed.
 However, it is not particularly easy to understand what is happening.
 A 2-d image, 
\family typewriter
in
\family default
, can be filtered using this code very quickly using
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
import image
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
out = image.filter(in)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Conclusion
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There are several disadvantages of using Pyrex: 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
The syntax for Pyrex can get a bit bulky, and it can be confusing at first
 to understand what kind of objects you are getting and how to interface
 them with C-like constructs.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Inappropriate Pyrex syntax or incorrect calls to C-code or type-mismatches
 can result in failures such as 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Enumerate
Pyrex failing to generate the extension module source code,
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Compiler failure while generating the extension module binary due to incorrect
 C syntax,
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Python failure when trying to use the module.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Enumerate
It is easy to lose a clean separation between Python and C which makes re-using
 your C-code for other non-Python-related projects more difficult.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Multi-dimensional arrays are 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

bulky
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 to index (appropriate macros may be able to fix this).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
The C-code generated by Prex is hard to read and modify (and typically compiles
 with annoying but harmless warnings).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Writing a good Pyrex extension module still takes a bit of effort because
 not only does it require (a little) familiarity with C, but also with Pyrex's
 brand of Python-mixed-with C.
 One big advantage of Pyrex-generated extension modules is that they are
 easy to distribute using distutils.
 In summary, Pyrex is a very capable tool for either gluing C-code or generating
 an extension module quickly and should not be over-looked.
 It is especially useful for people that can't or won't write C-code or
 Fortran code.
 But, if you are already able to write simple subroutines in C or Fortran,
 then I would use one of the other approaches such as f2py (for Fortran),
 ctypes (for C shared-libraries), or weave (for inline C-code).
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "pyrex|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
ctypes 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ctypes|("

\end_inset

Ctypes is a python extension module (downloaded separately for Python <2.5
 and included with Python 2.5) that allows you to call an arbitrary function
 in a shared library directly from Python.
 This approach allows you to interface with C-code directly from Python.
 This opens up an enormous number of libraries for use from Python.
 The drawback, however, is that coding mistakes can lead to ugly program
 crashes very easily (just as can happen in C) because there is little type
 or bounds checking done on the parameters.
 This is especially true when array data is passed in as a pointer to a
 raw memory location.
 The responsibility is then on you that the subroutine will not access memory
 outside the actual array area.
 But, if you don't mind living a little dangerously ctypes can be an effective
 tool for quickly taking advantage of a large shared library (or writing
 extended functionality in your own shared library).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Because the ctypes approach exposes a raw interface to the compiled code
 it is not always tolerant of user mistakes.
 Robust use of the ctypes module typically involves an additional layer
 of Python code in order to check the data types and array bounds of objects
 passed to the underlying subroutine.
 This additional layer of checking (not to mention the conversion from ctypes
 objects to C-data-types that ctypes itself performs), will make the interface
 slower than a hand-written extension-module interface.
 However, this overhead should be neglible if the C-routine being called
 is doing any significant amount of work.
 If you are a great Python programmer with weak C-skills, ctypes is an easy
 way to write a useful interface to a (shared) library of compiled code.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
To use c-types you must 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Have a shared library.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Load the shared library.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Convert the python objects to ctypes-understood arguments.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Call the function from the library with the ctypes arguments.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Having a shared library
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There are several requirements for a shared library that can be used with
 c-types that are platform specific.
 This guide assumes you have some familiarity with making a shared library
 on your system (or simply have a shared library available to you).
 Items to remember are:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
A shared library must be compiled in a special way (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 using the -shared flag with gcc).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
On some platforms (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 Windows) , a shared library requires a .def file that specifies the functions
 to be exported.
 For example a mylib.def file might contain.
 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout LyX-Code
LIBRARY mylib.dll
\newline
EXPORTS
\newline
cool_function1
\newline
cool_function2
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Alternatively, you may be able to use the storage-class specifier __declspec(dll
export) in the C-definition of the function to avoid the need for this .def
 file.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Standard
There is no standard way in Python distutils to create a standard shared
 library (an extension module is a 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

special
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 shared library Python understands) in a cross-platform manner.
 Thus, a big disadvantage of ctypes at the time of writing this book is
 that it is difficult to distribute in a cross-platform manner a Python
 extension that uses c-types and includes your own code which should be
 compiled as a shared library on the users system.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Loading the shared library
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A simple, but robust way to load the shared library is to get the absolute
 path name and load it using the cdll object of ctypes.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
lib = ctypes.cdll[<full_path_name>]
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
However, on Windows accessing an attribute of the cdll method will load
 the first DLL by that name found in the current directory or on the PATH.
 Loading the absolute path name requires a little finesse for cross-platform
 work since the extension of shared libraries varies.
 There is a 
\family typewriter
ctypes.util.find_library
\family default
 utility available that can simplify the process of finding the library
 to load but it is not foolproof.
 Complicating matters, different platforms have different default extensions
 used by shared libraries (e.g.
 .dll -- Windows, .so -- Linux, .dylib -- Mac OS X).
 This must also be taken into account if you are using c-types to wrap code
 that needs to work on several platforms.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
NumPy provides a convenience function called 
\series bold
ctypeslib.load_library
\series default
(name, path).
 This function takes the name of the shared library (including any prefix
 like 'lib' but excluding the extension) and a path where the shared library
 can be located.
 It returns a ctypes library object or raises an OSError if the library
 cannot be found or raises an ImportError if the ctypes module is not available.
 (Windows users: the ctypes library object loaded using 
\series bold
load_library
\series default
 is always loaded assuming cdecl calling convention.
 See the ctypes documentation under ctypes.windll and/or ctypes.oledll for
 ways to load libraries under other calling conventions).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The functions in the shared library are available as attributes of the ctypes
 library object (returned from 
\series bold
ctypeslib.load_library
\series default
) or as items using lib['func_name'] syntax.
 The latter method for retrieving a function name is particularly useful
 if the function name contains characters that are not allowable in Python
 variable names.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Converting arguments
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Python ints/longs, strings, and unicode objects are automatically converted
 as needed to equivalent c-types arguments The None object is also converted
 automatically to a NULL pointer.
 All other Python objects must be converted to ctypes-specific types.
 There are two ways around this restriction that allow c-types to integrate
 with other objects.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Don't set the argtypes attribute of the function object and define an _as_parame
ter_ method for the object you want to pass in.
 The _as_parameter_ method must return a Python int which will be passed
 directly to the function.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Enumerate
Set the argtypes attribute to a list whose entries contain objects with
 a classmethod named from_param that knows how to convert your object to
 an object that ctypes can understand (an int/long, string, unicode, or
 object with the _as_parameter_ attribute).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
NumPy uses both methods with a preference for the second method because
 it can be safer.
 The ctypes attribute of the ndarray returns an object that has an _as_parameter
_ attribute which returns an integer representing the address of the ndarray
 to which it is associated.
 As a result, one can pass this ctypes attribute object directly to a function
 expecting a pointer to the data in your ndarray.
 The caller must be sure that the ndarray object is of the correct type,
 shape, and has the correct flags set or risk nasty crashes if the data-pointer
 to inappropriate arrays are passsed in.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
To implement the second method, NumPy provides the class-factory function
 
\series bold
ndpointer
\series default
 in the 
\series bold
ctypeslib
\series default
 module.
 This class-factory function produces an appropriate class that can be placed
 in an argtypes attribute entry of a ctypes function.
 The class will contain a from_param method which ctypes will use to convert
 any ndarray passed in to the function to a ctypes-recognized object.
 In the process, the conversion will perform checking on any properties
 of the ndarray that were specified by the user in the call to ndpointer.
 Aspects of the ndarray that can be checked include the data-type, the number-of
-dimensions, the shape, and/or the state of the flags on any array passed.
 The return value of the from_param method is the ctypes attribute of the
 array which (because it contains the _as_parameter_ attribute pointing
 to the array data area) can be used by ctypes directly.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The ctypes attribute of an ndarray is also endowed with additional attributes
 that may be convenient when passing additional information about the array
 into a ctypes function.
 The attributes 
\series bold
data
\series default
, 
\series bold
shape
\series default
, and 
\series bold
strides
\series default
 can provide c-types compatible types corresponding to the data-area, the
 shape, and the strides of the array.
 The data attribute reutrns a 
\family typewriter
c_void_p
\family default
 representing a pointer to the data area.
 The shape and strides attributes each return an array of ctypes integers
 (or None representing a NULL pointer, if a 0-d array).
 The base ctype of the array is a ctype integer of the same size as a pointer
 on the platform.
 There are also methods data_as(<ctype>), shape_as(<base ctype>), and strides_as
(<base ctype>).
 These return the data as a ctype object of your choice and the shape/strides
 arrays using an underlying base type of your choice.
 For convenience, the 
\series bold
ctypeslib
\series default
 module also contains 
\series bold
c_intp
\series default
 as a ctypes integer data-type whose size is the same as the size of 
\family typewriter
c_void_p
\family default
 on the platform (it's value is None if ctypes is not installed).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Calling the function
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The function is accessed as an attribute of or an item from the loaded shared-li
brary.
 Thus, if 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

./mylib.so
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 has a function named 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

cool_function1
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

, I could access this function either as 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
lib = numpy.ctypeslib.load_library('mylib','.')
\newline
func1 = lib.cool_function1 #
 or equivalently
\newline
func1 = lib['cool_function1']
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
In ctypes, the return-value of a function is set to be 'int' by default.
 This behavior can be changed by setting the restype attribute of the function.
 Use None for the restype if the function has no return value ('void'):
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
func1.restype = None
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
As previously discussed, you can also set the argtypes attribute of the
 function in order to have ctypes check the types of the input arguments
 when the function is called.
 Use the ndpointer factory function to generate a ready-made class for data-type
, shape, and flags checking on your new function.
 The ndpointer function has the signature
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
ndpointer (dtype=None, ndim=None, shape=None, flags=None)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Description
\InsetSpace ~
 Keyword arguments with the value 
\family typewriter
None
\family default
 are not checked.
 Specifying a keyword enforces checking of that aspect of the ndarray on
 conversion to a ctypes-compatible object.
 The dtype keyword can be any object understood as a data-type object.
 The ndim keyword should be an integer, and the shape keyword should be
 an integer or a sequence of integers.
 The flags keyword specifies the minimal flags that are required on any
 array passed in.
 This can be specified as a string of comma separated requirements, an integer
 indicating the requirement bits OR'd together, or a flags object returned
 from the flags attribute of an array with the necessary requirements.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Using an ndpointer class in the argtypes method can make it significantly
 safer to call a C-function using ctypes and the data-area of an ndarray.
 You may still want to wrap the function in an additional Python wrapper
 to make it user-friendly (hiding some obvious arguments and making some
 arguments output arguments).
 In this process, the 
\series bold
requires
\series default
 function in NumPy may be useful to return the right kind of array from
 a given input.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Complete example
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
In this example, I will show how the addition function and the filter function
 implemented previously using the other approaches can be implemented using
 ctypes.
 First, the C-code which implements the algorithms contains the functions
 zadd, dadd, sadd, cadd, and dfilter2d.
 The zadd function is 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
/* Add arrays of contiguous data */
\newline
typedef struct {double real; double imag;}
 cdouble;
\newline
typedef struct {float real; float imag;} cfloat;
\newline
void zadd(cdouble
 *a, cdouble *b, cdouble *c, long n)
\newline
{
\newline
    while (n--) {
\newline
        c->real =
 a->real + b->real;
\newline
        c->imag = a->imag + b->imag;
\newline
        a++; b++;
 c++; 
\newline
    }       
\newline
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
with similar code for cadd, dadd, and sadd that handles complex float, double,
 and float data-types, respectively:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
void cadd(cfloat *a, cfloat *b, cfloat *c, long n)
\newline
{
\newline
        while (n--) {
\newline

                c->real = a->real + b->real;
\newline
                c->imag = a->imag
 + b->imag;
\newline
                a++; b++; c++; 
\newline
        }       
\newline
}
\newline
void dadd(double
 *a, double *b, double *c, long n) 
\newline
{
\newline
        while (n--) {
\newline
              
  *c++ = *a++ + *b++;
\newline
        }       
\newline
}
\newline
void sadd(float *a, float *b, float
 *c, long n) 
\newline
{
\newline
        while (n--) {
\newline
                *c++ = *a++ + *b++;
\newline
 
       }
\newline
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The code.c file also contains the function dfilter2d:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
/* Assumes b is contiguous and 
\newline
   a has strides that are multiples of sizeof(dou
ble)
\newline
*/
\newline
void 
\newline
dfilter2d(double *a, double *b, int *astrides, int *dims)
\newline
{
\newline
  
  int i, j, M, N, S0, S1;
\newline
    int r, c, rm1, rp1, cp1, cm1;
\newline

\newline
    M = dims[0];
 N = dims[1];
\newline
    S0 = astrides[0]/sizeof(double); 
\newline
    S1=astrides[1]/sizeof(doub
le);
\newline
    for (i=1; i<M-1; i++) {
\newline
        r = i*S0; rp1 = r+S0; rm1 = r-S0;
\newline

        for (j=1; j<N-1; j++) {
\newline
            c = j*S1; cp1 = j+S1; cm1 = j-S1;
\newline

            b[i*N+j] = a[r+c] +                 
\backslash

\newline
                (a[rp1+c] + a[rm1+c] +          
\backslash

\newline
                 a[r+cp1] + a[r+cm1])*0.5 +     
\backslash

\newline
                (a[rp1+cp1] + a[rp1+cm1] +      
\backslash

\newline
                 a[rm1+cp1] + a[rm1+cp1])*0.25;
\newline
        }
\newline
    }
\newline
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A possible advantage this code has over the Fortran-equivalent code is that
 it takes arbitrarily strided (i.e.
 non-contiguous arrays) and may also run faster depending on the optimization
 capability of your compiler.
 But, it is a obviously more complicated than the simple code in filter.f.
 This code must be compiled into a shared library.
 On my Linux system this is accomplished using 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
gcc -o code.so -shared code.c
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Which creates a shared_library named code.so in the current directory.
 On Windows don't forget to either add __declspec(dllexport) in front of
 void on the line preceeding each function definition, or write a code.def
 file that lists the names of the functions to be exported.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A suitable Python interface to this shared library should be constructed.
 To do this create a file named interface.py with the following lines at
 the top:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
__all__ = ['add', 'filter2d']
\newline

\newline
import numpy as N
\newline
import os
\newline

\newline
_path = os.path.dirname('__
file__')
\newline
lib = N.ctypeslib.load_library('code', _path)
\newline
_typedict = {'zadd' :
 complex, 'sadd' : N.single,
\newline
             'cadd' : N.csingle, 'dadd' : float}
\newline
for
 name in _typedict.keys():
\newline
    val = getattr(lib, name)
\newline
    val.restype = None
\newline

    _type = _typedict[name]
\newline
    val.argtypes = [N.ctypeslib.ndpointer(_type,
 
\newline
                      flags='aligned, contiguous'),
\newline
                   
 N.ctypeslib.ndpointer(_type, 
\newline
                      flags='aligned, contiguous'),
\newline

                    N.ctypeslib.ndpointer(_type, 
\newline
                      flags='alig
ned, contiguous,'
\backslash

\newline
                            'writeable'),
\newline
                    N.ctypeslib.c_intp]
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This code loads the shared library named code.<ext> located in the same path
 as this file.
 It then adds a return type of void to the functions contained in the library.
 It also adds argument checking to the functions in the library so that
 ndarrays can be passed as the first three arguments along with an integer
 (large enough to hold a pointer on the platform) as the fourth argument.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Setting up the filtering function is similar and allows the filtering function
 to be called with ndarray arguments as the first two arguments and with
 pointers to integers (large enough to handle the strides and shape of an
 ndarray) as the last two arguments.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
lib.dfilter2d.restype=None
\newline
lib.dfilter2d.argtypes = [N.ctypeslib.ndpointer(float,
 ndim=2,
\newline
                                       flags='aligned'),
\newline
       
                   N.ctypeslib.ndpointer(float, ndim=2,
\newline
                  
               flags='aligned, contiguous,'
\backslash

\newline
                                       'writeable'), 
\newline
                  
        ctypes.POINTER(N.ctypeslib.c_intp), 
\newline
                          ctypes.POINTER
(N.ctypeslib.c_intp)] 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Next, define a simple selection function that chooses which addition function
 to call in the shared library based on the data-type:
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
def select(dtype):
\newline
    if dtype.char in ['?bBhHf']:
\newline
        return lib.sadd,
 single
\newline
    elif dtype.char in ['F']:
\newline
        return lib.cadd, csingle
\newline
    elif
 dtype.char in ['DG']:
\newline
        return lib.zadd, complex
\newline
    else:
\newline
        return
 lib.dadd, float
\newline
    return func, ntype
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Finally, the two functions to be exported by the interface can be written
 simply as 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
def add(a, b):
\newline
    requires = ['CONTIGUOUS', 'ALIGNED']
\newline
    a = N.asanyarray(a)
\newline

    func, dtype = select(a.dtype)
\newline
    a = N.require(a, dtype, requires)
\newline
   
 b = N.require(b, dtype, requires)
\newline
    c = N.empty_like(a)
\newline
    func(a,b,c,a.size)
\newline

    return c
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
and 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
def filter2d(a):
\newline
    a = N.require(a, float, ['ALIGNED'])
\newline
    b = N.zeros_like(a)
\newline

    lib.dfilter2d(a, b, a.ctypes.strides, a.ctypes.shape)
\newline
    return b
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Conclusion
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Using ctypes is a powerful way to connect Python with arbitrary C-code.
 It's advantages for extending Python include
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
clean separation of C-code from Python code
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
no need to learn a new syntax except Python and C
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
allows re-use of C-code
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
functionality in shared libraries written for other purposes can be obtained
 with a simple Python wrapper and search for the library.
 
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
easy integration with NumPy through the ctypes attribute
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
full argument checking with the ndpointer class factory
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
It's disadvantages include
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
It is difficult to distribute an extension module made using ctypes because
 of a lack of support for building shared libraries in distutils (but I
 suspect this will change in time).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
You must have shared-libraries of your code (no static libraries).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
Very little support for C++ code and it's different library-calling conventions.
 You will probably need a C-wrapper around C++ code to use with ctypes (or
 just use Boost.Python instead).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Because of the difficulty in distributing an extension module made using
 ctypes, f2py is still the easiest way to extend Python for package creation.
 However, ctypes is a close second and will probably be growing in popularity
 now that it is part of the Python distribution.
 This should bring more features to ctypes that should eliminate the difficulty
 in extending Python and distributing the extension using ctypes.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ctypes|)"

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Additional tools you may find useful
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
These tools have been found useful by others using Python and so are included
 here.
 They are discussed separately because I see them as either older ways to
 do things more modernly handled by f2py, weave, Pyrex, or ctypes (SWIG,
 PyFort, PyInline) or because I don't know much about them (SIP, Boost,
 Instant).
 I have not added links to these methods because my experience is that you
 can find the most relevant link faster using Google or some other search
 engine, and any links provided here would be quickly dated.
 Do not assume that just because it is included in this list, I don't think
 the package deserves your attention.
 I'm including information about these packages because many people have
 found them useful and I'd like to give you as many options as possible
 for tackling the problem of easily integrating your code.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
SWIG
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "swig"

\end_inset

Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) is an old and fairly stable
 method for wrapping C/C++-libraries to a large variety of other languages.
 It does not specifically understand NumPy arrays but can be made useable
 with NumPy through the use of typemaps.
 There are some sample typemaps in the numpy/doc/swig directory under numpy.i
 along with an example module that makes use of them.
 SWIG excels at wrapping large C/C++ libraries because it can (almost) parse
 their headers and auto-produce an interface.
 Technically, you need to generate a 
\family typewriter
.i
\family default
 file that defines the interface.
 Often, however, this 
\family typewriter
.i
\family default
 file can be parts of the header itself.
 The interface usually needs a bit of tweaking to be very useful.
 This ability to parse C/C++ headers and auto-generate the interface still
 makes SWIG a useful approach to adding functionalilty from C/C++ into Python,
 despite the other methods that have emerged that are more targeted to Python.
 SWIG can actually target extensions for several languages, but the typemaps
 usually have to be language-specific.
 Nonetheless, with modifications to the Python-specific typemaps, SWIG can
 be used to interface a library with other languages such as Perl, Tcl,
 and Ruby.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
My experience with SWIG has been generally positive in that it is relatively
 easy to use and quite powerful.
 I used to use it quite often before becoming more proficient at writing
 C-extensions.
 However, I struggled writing custom interfaces with SWIG because it must
 be done using the concept of typemaps which are not Python specific and
 are written in a C-like syntax.
 Therefore, I tend to prefer other gluing strategies and would only attempt
 to use SWIG to wrap a very-large C/C++ library.
 Nonetheless, there are others who use SWIG quite happily.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
SIP
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "SIP"

\end_inset

SIP is another tool for wrapping C/C++ libraries that is Python specific
 and appears to have very good support for C++.
 Riverbank Computing developed SIP in order to create Python bindings to
 the QT library.
 An interface file must be written to generate the binding, but the interface
 file looks a lot like a C/C++ header file.
 While SIP is not a full C++ parser, it understands quite a bit of C++ syntax
 as well as its own special directives that allow modification of how the
 Python binding is accomplished.
 It also allows the user to define mappings between Python types and C/C++
 structrues and classes.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Boost Python
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "Boost.Python"

\end_inset

Boost is a repository of C++ libraries and Boost.Python is one of those libraries
 which provides a concise interface for binding C++ classes and functions
 to Python.
 The amazing part of the Boost.Python approach is that it works entirely
 in pure C++ without introducing a new syntax.
 Many users of C++ report that Boost.Python makes it possible to combine
 the best of both worlds in a seamless fashion.
 I have not used Boost.Python because I am not a big user of C++ and using
 Boost to wrap simple C-subroutines is usually over-kill.
 It's primary purpose is to make C++ classes available in Python.
 So, if you have a set of C++ classes that need to be integrated cleanly
 into Python, consider learning about and using Boost.Python.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Instant
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "Instant"

\end_inset

This is a relatively new package (called pyinstant at sourceforge) that
 builds on top of SWIG to make it easy to inline C and C++ code in Python
 very much like weave.
 However, Instant builds extension modules on the fly with specific module
 names and specific method names.
 In this repsect it is more more like f2py in its behavior.
 The extension modules are built on-the fly (as long as the SWIG is installed).
 They can then be imported.
 Here is an example of using Instant with NumPy arrays (adapted from the
 test2 included in the Instant distribution):
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
code="""
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
PyObject* add(PyObject* a_, PyObject* b_){
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  /*
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  various checks
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  */ 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  PyArrayObject* a=(PyArrayObject*) a_;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  PyArrayObject* b=(PyArrayObject*) b_;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  int n = a->dimensions[0];
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  int dims[1];
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  dims[0] = n; 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  PyArrayObject* ret;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  ret = (PyArrayObject*) PyArray_FromDims(1, dims, NPY_DOUBLE); 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  int i;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  char *aj=a->data;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  char *bj=b->data;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  double *retj = (double *)ret->data; 
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  for (i=0; i < n; i++) {
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    *retj++ = *((double *)aj) + *((double *)bj);
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    aj += a->strides[0];
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
    bj += b->strides[0];
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
  }
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
return (PyObject *)ret;
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
}
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
"""
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
import Instant, numpy
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
ext = Instant.Instant()
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
ext.create_extension(code=s, headers=["numpy/arrayobject.h"],            
                           include_dirs=[numpy.get_include()],          
                                 init_code='import_array();', module="test2b_ext
")
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
import test2b_ext
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
a = numpy.arange(1000)
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
b = numpy.arange(1000)
\end_layout

\begin_layout LyX-Code
d = test2b_ext.add(a,b)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Except perhaps for the dependence on SWIG, Instant is a straightforward
 utility for writing extension modules.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
PyInline
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This is a much older module that allows automatic building of extension
 modules so that C-code can be included with Python code.
 It's latest release (version 0.03) was in 2001, and it appears that it is
 not being updated.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
PyFort
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
PyFort is a nice tool for wrapping Fortran and Fortran-like C-code into
 Python with support for Numeric arrays.
 It was written by Paul Dubois, a distinguished computer scientist and the
 very first maintainer of Numeric (now retired).
 It is worth mentioning in the hopes that somebody will update PyFort to
 work with NumPy arrays as well which now support either Fortran or C-style
 contiguous arrays.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Chapter
Code Explanations
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
 aim.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
George Santayana
\end_layout

\begin_layout Quotation
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you
 really care to know.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Right Address
---
\emph on
Unknown
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This Chapter attempts to explain the logic behind some of the new pieces
 of code.
 The purpose behind these explanations is to enable somebody to be able
 to understand the ideas behind the implementation somewhat more easily
 than just staring at the code.
 Perhaps in this way, the algorithms can be improved on, borrowed from,
 and/or optimized.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Memory model
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ndarray!memory model"

\end_inset

One fundamental aspect of the ndarray is that an array is seen as a 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

chunk
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 of memory starting at some location.
 The interpretation of this memory depends on the stride information.
 For each dimension in an 
\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

-dimensional array, an integer (stride) dictates how many bytes must be
 skipped to get to the next element in that dimension.
 Unless you have a single-segment array, this stride information must be
 consulted when traversing through an array.
 It is not difficult to write code that accepts strides, you just have to
 use (char *) pointers because strides are in units of bytes.
 Keep in mind also that strides do not have to be unit-multiples of the
 element size.
 Also, remember that if the number of dimensions of the array is 0 (sometimes
 called a rank-0 array), then the strides and dimensions variables are NULL.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Besides the structural information contained in the strides and dimensions
 members of the PyArrayObject, the flags contain important information about
 how the data may be accessed.
 In particular, the NPY_ALIGNED flag is set when the memory is on a suitable
 boundary according to the data-type array.
 Even if you have a contiguous chunk of memory, you cannot just assume it
 is safe to dereference a data-type-specific pointer to an element.
 Only if the NPY_ALIGNED flag is set is this a safe operation (on some platforms
 it will work but on others, like Solaris, it will cause a bus error).
 The NPY_WRITEABLE should also be ensured if you plan on writing to the
 memory area of the array.
 It is also possible to obtain a pointer to an unwriteable memory area.
 Sometimes, writing to the memory area when the NPY_WRITEABLE flag is not
 set will just be rude.
 Other times it can cause program crashes (
\emph on
e.g.

\emph default
 a data-area that is a read-only memory-mapped file).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Data-type encapsulation 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "dtype"

\end_inset

The data-type is an important abstraction of the ndarray.
 Operations will look to the data-type to provide the key functionality
 that is needed to operate on the array.
 This functionality is provided in the list of function pointers pointed
 to by the 'f' member of the PyArray_Descr structure.
 In this way, the number of data-types can be extended simply by providing
 a PyArray_Descr structure with suitable function pointers in the 'f' member.
 For built-in types there are some optimizations that by-pass this mechanism,
 but the point of the data-type abstraction is to allow new data-types to
 be added.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
One of the built-in data-types, the void data-type allows for arbitrary
 records containing 1 or more fields as elements of the array.
 A field is simply another data-type object along with an offset into the
 current record.
 In order to support arbitrarily nested fields, several recursive implementation
s of data-type access are implemented for the void type.
 A common idiom is to cycle through the elements of the dictionary and perform
 a specific operation based on the data-type object stored at the given
 offset.
 These offsets can be arbitrary numbers.
 Therefore, the possibility of encountering mis-aligned data must be recognized
 and taken into account if necessary.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
N-D Iterators
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "array iterator"

\end_inset

A very common operation in much of NumPy code is the need to iterate over
 all the elements of a general, strided, N-dimensional array.
 This operation of a general-purpose N-dimensional loop is abstracted in
 the notion of an iterator object.
 To write an N-dimensional loop, you only have to create an iterator object
 from an ndarray, work with the dataptr member of the iterator object structure
 and call the macro PyArray_ITER_NEXT(it) on the iterator object to move
 to the next element.
 The 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

next
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 element is always in C-contiguous order.
 The macro works by first special casing the C-contiguous, 1-d, and 2-d
 cases which work very simply.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
For the general case, the iteration works by keeping track of a list of
 coordinate counters in the iterator object.
 At each iteration, the last coordinate counter is increased (starting from
 0).
 If this counter is smaller then one less than the size of the array in
 that dimension (a pre-computed and stored value), then the counter is increased
 and the dataptr member is increased by the strides in that dimension and
 the macro ends.
 If the end of a dimension is reached, the counter for the last dimension
 is reset to zero and the dataptr is moved back to the beginning of that
 dimension by subtracting the strides value times one less than the number
 of elements in that dimension (this is also pre-computed and stored in
 the backstrides member of the iterator object).
 In this case, the macro does not end, but a local dimension counter is
 decremented so that the next-to-last dimension replaces the role that the
 last dimension played and the previously-described tests are executed again
 on the next-to-last dimension.
 In this way, the dataptr is adjusted appropriately for arbitrary striding.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The coordinates member of the PyArrayIterObject structure maintains the
 current N-d counter unless the underlying array is C-contiguous in which
 case the coordinate counting is by-passed.
 The index member of the PyArrayIterObject keeps track of the current flat
 index of the iterator.
 It is updated by the PyArray_ITER_NEXT macro.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Broadcasting
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "broadcasting"

\end_inset

In Numeric, broadcasting was implemented in several lines of code buried
 deep in ufuncobject.c.
 In NumPy, the notion of broadcasting has been abstracted so that it can
 be performed in multiple places.
 Broadcasting is handled by the function PyArray_Broadcast.
 This function requires a PyArrayMultiIterObject (or something that is a
 binary equivalent) to be passed in.
 The PyArrayMultiIterObject keeps track of the broadcasted number of dimensions
 and size in each dimension along with the total size of the broadcasted
 result.
 It also keeps track of the number of arrays being broadcast and a pointer
 to an iterator for each of the arrays being broadcasted.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The PyArray_Broadcast function takes the iterators that have already been
 defined and uses them to determine the broadcast shape in each dimension
 (to create the iterators at the same time that broadcasting occurs then
 use the PyMuliIter_New function).
 Then, the iterators are adjusted so that each iterator thinks it is iterating
 over an array with the broadcasted size.
 This is done by adjusting the iterators number of dimensions, and the shape
 in each dimension.
 This works because the iterator strides are also adjusted.
 Broadcasting only adjusts (or adds) length-1 dimensions.
 For these dimensions, the strides variable is simply set to 0 so that the
 data-pointer for the iterator over that array doesn't move as the broadcasting
 operation operates over the extended dimension.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Broadcasting was always implemented in Numeric using 0-valued strides for
 the extended dimensions.
 It is done in exactly the same way in NumPy.
 The big difference is that now the array of strides is kept track of in
 a PyArrayIterObject, the iterators involved in a broadcasted result are
 kept track of in a PyArrayMultiIterObject, and the PyArray_BroadCast call
 implements the broad-casting rules.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Array Scalars
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "array scalars"

\end_inset

The array scalars offer a hierarchy of Python types that allow a one-to-one
 correspondence between the data-type stored in an array and the Python-type
 that is returned when an element is extracted from the array.
 An exception to this rule was made with object arrays.
 Object arrays are heterogeneous collections of arbitrary Python objects.
 When you select an item from an object array, you get back the original
 Python object (and not an object array scalar which does exist but is rarely
 used for practical purposes).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The array scalars also offer the same methods and attributes as arrays with
 the intent that the same code can be used to support arbitrary dimensions
 (including 0-dimensions).
 The array scalars are read-only (immutable) with the exception of the void
 scalar which can also be written to so that record-array field setting
 works more naturally (a[0]['f1'] = 
\family typewriter
value
\family default
).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Advanced (
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

Fancy
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

) Indexing
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "indexing"

\end_inset

The implementation of advanced indexing represents some of the most difficult
 code to write and explain.
 In fact, there are two implementations of advanced indexing.
 The first works only with 1-d arrays and is implemented to handle expressions
 involving a.flat[obj].
 The second is general-purpose that works for arrays of 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

arbitrary dimension
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 (up to a fixed maximum).
 The one-dimensional indexing approaches were implemented in a rather straightfo
rward fashion, and so it is the general-purpose indexing code that will
 be the focus of this section.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There is a multi-layer approach to indexing because the indexing code can
 at times return an array scalar and at other times return an array.
 The functions with 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

_nice
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 appended to their name do this special handling while the function without
 the _nice appendage always return an array (perhaps a 0-dimensional array).
 Some special-case optimizations (the index being an integer scalar, and
 the index being a tuple with as many dimensions as the array) are handled
 in array_subscript_nice function which is what Python calls when presented
 with the code 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

a[obj].
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 These optimizations allow fast single-integer indexing, and also ensure
 that a 0-dimensional array is not created only to be discarded as the array
 scalar is returned instead.
 This provides significant speed-up for code that is selecting many scalars
 out of an array (such as in a loop).
 However, it is still not faster than simply using a list to store standard
 Python scalars, because that is optimized by the Python interpreter itself.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
After these optimizations, the array_subscript function itself is called.
 This function first checks for field selection which occurs when a string
 is passed as the indexing object.
 Then, 0-d arrays are given special-case consideration.
 Finally, the code determines whether or not advanced, or fancy, indexing
 needs to be performed.
 If fancy indexing is not needed, then standard view-based indexing is performed
 using code borrowed from Numeric which parses the indexing object and returns
 the offset into the data-buffer and the dimensions necessary to create
 a new view of the array.
 The strides are also changed by multiplying each stride by the step-size
 requested along the corresponding dimension.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Fancy-indexing check
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The fancy_indexing_check routine determines whether or not to use standard
 view-based indexing or new copy-based indexing.
 If the indexing object is a tuple, then view-based indexing is assumed
 by default.
 Only if the tuple contains an array object or a sequence object is fancy-indexi
ng assumed.
 If the indexing object is an array, then fancy indexing is automatically
 assumed.
 If the indexing object is any other kind of sequence, then fancy-indexing
 is assumed by default.
 This is over-ridden to simple indexing if the sequence contains any slice,
 newaxis, or Ellipsis objects, and no arrays or additional sequences are
 also contained in the sequence.
 The purpose of this is to allow the construction of 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

slicing
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 sequences which is a common technique for building up code that works in
 arbitrary numbers of dimensions.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Fancy-indexing implementation
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The concept of indexing was also abstracted using the idea of an iterator.
 If fancy indexing is performed, then a PyArrayMapIterObject is created.
 This internal object is not exposed to Python.
 It is created in order to handle the fancy-indexing at a high-level.
 Both get and set fancy-indexing operations are implemented using this object.
 Fancy indexing is abstracted into three separate operations: (1) creating
 the PyArrayMapIterObject from the indexing object, (2) binding the PyArrayMapIt
erObject to the array being indexed, and (3) getting (or setting) the items
 determined by the indexing object.
 There is an optimization implemented so that the PyArrayIterObject (which
 has it's own less complicated fancy-indexing) is used for indexing when
 possible.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Creating the mapping object
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The first step is to convert the indexing objects into a standard form where
 iterators are created for all of the index array inputs and all Boolean
 arrays are converted to equivalent integer index arrays (as if nonzero(arr)
 had been called).
 Finally, all integer arrays are replaced with the integer 0 in the indexing
 object and all of the index-array iterators are 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

broadcast
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 to the same shape.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Binding the mapping object
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When the mapping object is created it does not know which array it will
 be used with so once the index iterators are constructed during mapping-object
 creation, the next step is to associate these iterators with a particular
 ndarray.
 This process interprets any ellipsis and slice objects so that the index
 arrays are associated with the appropriate axis (the axis indicated by
 the iteraxis entry corresponding to the iterator for the integer index
 array).
 This information is then used to check the indices to be sure they are
 within range of the shape of the array being indexed.
 The presence of ellipsis and/or slice objects implies a sub-space iteration
 that is accomplished by extracting a sub-space view of the array (using
 the index object resulting from replacing all the integer index arrays
 with 0) and storing the information about where this sub-space starts in
 the mapping object.
 This is used later during mapping-object iteration to select the correct
 elements from the underlying array.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Getting (or Setting)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
After the mapping object is successfully bound to a particular array, the
 mapping object contains the shape of the resulting item as well as iterator
 objects that will walk through the currently-bound array and either get
 or set its elements as needed.
 The walk is implemented using the PyArray_MapIterNext function.
 This function sets the coordinates of an iterator object into the current
 array to be the next coordinate location indicated by all of the indexing-objec
t iterators while adjusting, if necessary, for the presence of a sub-space.
 The result of this function is that the dataptr member of the mapping object
 structure is pointed to the next position in the array that needs to be
 copied out or set to some value.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When advanced indexing is used to extract an array, an iterator for the
 new array is constructed and advanced in phase with the mapping object
 iterator.
 When advanced indexing is used to place values in an array, a special 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

broadcasted
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 iterator is constructed from the object being placed into the array so
 that it will only work if the values used for setting have a shape that
 is 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

broadcastable
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 to the shape implied by the indexing object.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Universal Functions
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc|("

\end_inset

Universal functions are callable objects that take 
\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

 inputs and produce 
\begin_inset Formula $M$
\end_inset

 outputs by wrapping basic 1-d loops that work element-by-element into full
 easy-to use functions that seamlessly implement broadcasting, type-checking
 and buffered coercion, and output-argument handling.
 New universal functions are normally created in C, although there is a
 mechanism for creating ufuncs from Python functions (
\series bold
frompyfunc
\series default
).
 The user must supply a 1-d loop that implements the basic function taking
 the input scalar values and placing the resulting scalars into the appropriate
 output slots as explaine n implementation.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Setup
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Every ufunc calculation involves some overhead related to setting up the
 calculation.
 The practical significance of this overhead is that even though the actual
 calculation of the ufunc is very fast, you will be able to write array
 and type-specific code that will work faster for small arrays than the
 ufunc.
 In particular, using ufuncs to perform many calculations on 0-d arrays
 will be slower than other Python-based solutions (the silently-imported
 scalarmath module exists precisely to give array scalars the look-and-feel
 of ufunc-based calculations with significantly reduced overhead).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When a ufunc is called, many things must be done.
 The information collected from these setup operations is stored in a loop-objec
t.
 This loop object is a C-structure (that could become a Python object but
 is not initialized as such because it is only used internally).
 This loop object has the layout needed to be used with PyArray_Broadcast
 so that the broadcasting can be handled in the same way as it is handled
 in other sections of code.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The first thing done is to look-up in the thread-specific global dictionary
 the current values for the buffer-size, the error mask, and the associated
 error object.
 The state of the error mask controls what happens when an error-condiction
 is found.
 It should be noted that checking of the hardware error flags is only performed
 after each 1-d loop is executed.
 This means that if the input and output arrays are contiguous and of the
 correct type so that a single 1-d loop is performed, then the flags may
 not be checked until all elements of the array have been calcluated.
 Looking up these values in a thread-specific dictionary takes time which
 is easily ignored for all but very small arrays.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
After checking, the thread-specific global variables, the inputs are evaluated
 to determine how the ufunc should proceed and the input and output arrays
 are constructed if necessary.
 Any inputs which are not arrays are converted to arrays (using context
 if necessary).
 Which of the inputs are scalars (and therefore converted to 0-d arrays)
 is noted.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Next, an appropriate 1-d loop is selected from the 1-d loops available to
 the ufunc based on the input array types.
 This 1-d loop is selected by trying to match the signature of the data-types
 of the inputs against the available signatures.
 The signatures corresponding to built-in types are stored in the types
 member of the ufunc structure.
 The signatures corresponding to user-defined types are stored in a linked-list
 of function-information with the head element stored as a 
\family typewriter
CObject
\family default
 in the userloops dictionary keyed by the data-type number (the first user-defin
ed type in the argument list is used as the key).
 The signatures are searched until a signature is found to which the input
 arrays can all be cast safely (ignoring any scalar arguments which are
 not allowed to determine the type of the result).
 The implication of this search procedure is that 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

lesser types
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 should be placed below 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

larger types
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 when the signatures are stored.
 If no 1-d loop is found, then an error is reported.
 Otherwise, the argument_list is updated with the stored signature --- in
 case casting is necessary and to fix the output types assumed by the 1-d
 loop.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
If the ufunc has 2 inputs and 1 output and the second input is an Object
 array then a special-case check is performed so that NotImplemented is
 returned if the second input is not an ndarray, has the __array_priority__
 attribute, and has an __r<op>__ special method.
 In this way, Python is signaled to give the other object a chance to complete
 the operation instead of using generic object-array calculations.
 This allows (for example) sparse matrices to override the multiplication
 operator 1-d loop.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
For input arrays that are smaller than the specified buffer size, copies
 are made of all non-contiguous, mis-aligned, or out-of-byteorder arrays
 to ensure that for small arrays, a single-loop is used.
 Then, array iterators are created for all the input arrays and the resulting
 collection of iterators is broadcast to a single shape.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The output arguments (if any) are then processed and any missing return
 arrays are constructed.
 If any provided output array doesn't have the correct type (or is mis-aligned)
 and is smaller than the buffer size, then a new output array is constructed
 with the special UPDATEIFCOPY flag set so that when it is DECREF'd on completio
n of the function, it's contents will be copied back into the output array.
 Iterators for the output arguments are then processed.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Finally, the decision is made about how to execute the looping mechanism
 to ensure that all elements of the input arrays are combined to produce
 the output arrays of the correct type.
 The options for loop execution are one-loop (for contiguous, aligned, and
 correct data-type), strided-loop (for non-contiguous but still aligned
 and correct data-type), and a buffered loop (for mis-aligned or incorrect
 data-type situations).
 Depending on which execution method is called for, the loop is then setup
 and computed.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Function call
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This section describes how the basic universal function computation loop
 is setup and executed for each of the three different kinds of execution
 possibilities.
 If NPY_ALLOW_THREADS is defined during compilation, then the Python Global
 Interpreter Lock (GIL) is released prior to calling all of these loops
 (as long as they don't involve object arrays).
 It is re-acquired if necessary to handle error conditions.
 The hardware error flags are checked only after the 1-d loop is calcluated.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
One Loop
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This is the simplest case of all.
 The ufunc is executed by calling the underlying 1-d loop exactly once.
 This is possible only when we have aligned data of the correct type (including
 byte-order) for both input and output and all arrays have uniform strides
 (either contiguous, 0-d, or 1-d).
 In this case, the 1-d computational loop is called once to compute the
 calculation for the entire array.
 Note that the hardware error flags are only checked after the entire calculatio
n is complete.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Strided Loop
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When the input and output arrays are aligned and of the correct type, but
 the striding is not uniform (non-contiguous and 2-d or larger), then a
 second looping structure is employed for the calculation.
 This approach converts all of the iterators for the input and output arguments
 to iterate over all but the largest dimension.
 The inner loop is then handled by the underlying 1-d computational loop.
 The outer loop is a standard iterator loop on the converted iterators.
 The hardware error flags are checked after each 1-d loop is completed.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Buffered Loop
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This is the code that handles the situation whenever the input and/or output
 arrays are either misaligned or of the wrong data-type (including being
 byte-swapped) from what the underlying 1-d loop expects.
 The arrays are also assumed to be non-contiguous.
 The code works very much like the strided loop except for the inner 1-d
 loop is modified so that pre-processing is performed on the inputs and
 post-processing is performed on the outputs in bufsize chunks (where bufsize
 is a user-settable parameter).
 The underlying 1-d computational loop is called on data that is copied
 over (if it needs to be).
 The setup code and the loop code is considerably more complicated in this
 case because it has to handle:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
memory allocation of the temporary buffers
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
deciding whether or not to use buffers on the input and output data (mis-aligned
 and/or wrong data-type)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
copying and possibly casting data for any inputs or outputs for which buffers
 are necessary.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
special-casing Object arrays so that reference counts are properly handled
 when copies and/or casts are necessary.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
breaking up the inner 1-d loop into bufsize chunks (with a possible remainder).
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Again, the hardware error flags are checked at the end of each 1-d loop.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Final output manipulation
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Ufuncs allow other array-like classes to be passed seamlessly through the
 interface in that inputs of a particular class will induce the outputs
 to be of that same class.
 The mechanism by which this works is the following.
 If any of the inputs are not ndarrays and define the 
\series bold
__array_wrap__
\series default
 method, then the class with the largest 
\series bold
__array_priority__
\series default
 attribute determines the type of all the outputs (with the exception of
 any output arrays passed in).
 The 
\series bold
__array_wrap__
\series default
 method of the input array will be called with the ndarray being returned
 from the ufunc as it's input.
 There are two calling styles of the 
\series bold
__array_wrap__
\series default
 function supported.
 The first takes the ndarray as the first argument and a tuple of 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

context
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 as the second argument.
 The context is (ufunc, arguments, output argument number).
 This is the first call tried.
 If a TypeError occurs, then the function is called with just the ndarray
 as the first argument.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Methods
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Their are three methods of ufuncs that require calculation similar to the
 general-purpose ufuncs.
 These are reduce, accumulate, and reduceat.
 Each of these methods requires a setup command followed by a loop.
 There are four loop styles possible for the methods corresponding to no-element
s, one-element, strided-loop, and buffered-loop.
 These are the same basic loop styles as implemented for the general purpose
 function call except for the no-element and one-element cases which are
 special-cases occurring when the input array objects have 0 and 1 elements
 respectively.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Setup
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The setup function for all three methods is 
\family typewriter
construct_reduce
\family default
.
 This function creates a reducing loop object and fills it with parameters
 needed to complete the loop.
 All of the methods only work on ufuncs that take 2-inputs and return 1
 output.
 Therefore, the underlying 1-d loop is selected assuming a signature of
 [
\family typewriter
otype
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
otype
\family default
, 
\family typewriter
otype
\family default
] where 
\family typewriter
otype
\family default
 is the requested reduction data-type.
 The buffer size and error handling is then retrieved from (per-thread)
 global storage.
 For small arrays that are mis-aligned or have incorrect data-type, a copy
 is made so that the un-buffered section of code is used.
 Then, the looping strategy is selected.
 If there is 1 element or 0 elements in the array, then a simple looping
 method is selected.
 If the array is not mis-aligned and has the correct data-type, then strided
 looping is selected.
 Otherwise, buffered looping must be performed.
 Looping parameters are then established, and the return array is constructed.
 The output array is of a different shape depending on whether the method
 is reduce, accumulate, or reduceat.
 If an output array is already provided, then it's shape is checked.
 If the output array is not C-contiguous, aligned, and of the correct data
 type, then a temporary copy is made with the UPDATEIFCOPY flag set.
 In this way, the methods will be able to work with a well-behaved output
 array but the result will be copied back into the true output array when
 the method computation is complete.
 Finally, iterators are set up to loop over the correct axis (depending
 on the value of axis provided to the method) and the setup routine returns
 to the actual computation routine.
 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Reduce
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc!methods!reduce"

\end_inset

All of the ufunc methods use the same underlying 1-d computational loops
 with input and output arguments adjusted so that the appropriate reduction
 takes place.
 For example, the key to the functioning of reduce is that the 1-d loop
 is called with the output and the second input pointing to the same position
 in memory and both having a step-size of 0.
 The first input is pointing to the input array with a step-size given by
 the appropriate stride for the selected axis.
 In this way, the operation performed is 
\begin_inset Formula \begin{eqnarray*}
o & = & i[0]\\
o & = & i[k]\textrm{ <op> }o\quad k=1\ldots N\end{eqnarray*}

\end_inset

 where 
\begin_inset Formula $N+1$
\end_inset

 is the number of elements in the input, 
\begin_inset Formula $i$
\end_inset

, 
\begin_inset Formula $o$
\end_inset

 is the output, and 
\begin_inset Formula $i[k]$
\end_inset

 is the 
\begin_inset Formula $k^{\textrm{th}}$
\end_inset

 element of 
\begin_inset Formula $i$
\end_inset

 along the selected axis.
 This basic operations is repeated for arrays with greater than 1 dimension
 so that the reduction takes place for every 1-d sub-array along the selected
 axis.
 An iterator with the selected dimension removed handles this looping.
 
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For buffered loops, care must be taken to copy and cast data before the
 loop function is called because the underlying loop expects aligned data
 of the correct data-type (including byte-order).
 The buffered loop must handle this copying and casting prior to calling
 the loop function on chunks no greater than the user-specified bufsize.
 
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\begin_layout Subsubsection
Accumulate
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\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc!methods!accumulate"

\end_inset

The accumulate function is very similar to the reduce function in that the
 output and the second input both point to the output.
 The difference is that the second input points to memory one stride behind
 the current output pointer.
 Thus, the operation performed is 
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\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset Formula \begin{eqnarray*}
o[0] & = & i[0]\\
o[k] & = & i[k]\textrm{ <op> }o[k-1]\quad k=1\ldots N.\end{eqnarray*}

\end_inset

 The output has the same shape as the input and each 1-d loop operates over
 
\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset

 elements when the shape in the selected axis is 
\begin_inset Formula $N+1$
\end_inset

.
 Again, buffered loops take care to copy and cast the data before calling
 the underlying 1-d computational loop.
 
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\begin_layout Subsubsection
Reduceat
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\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc!methods!reduceat"

\end_inset

The reduceat function is a generalization of both the reduce and accumulate
 functions.
 It implements a reduce over ranges of the input array specified by indices.
 The extra indices argument is checked to be sure that every input is not
 too large for the input array along the selected dimension before the loop
 calculations take place.
 The loop implementation is handled using code that is very similar to the
 reduce code repeated as many times as there are elements in the indices
 input.
 In particular: the first input pointer passed to the underlying 1-d computation
al loop points to the input array at the correct location indicated by the
 index array.
 In addition, the output pointer and the second input pointer passed to
 the underlying 1-d loop point to the same position in memory.
 The size of the 1-d computational loop is fixed to be the difference between
 the current index and the next index (when the current index is the last
 index, then the next index is assumed to be the length of the array along
 the selected dimension).
 In this way, the 1-d loop will implement a reduce over the specified indices.
 
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\begin_layout Standard
Mis-aligned or a loop data-type that does not match the input and/or output
 data-type is handled using buffered code where-in data is copied to a temporary
 buffer and cast to the correct data-type if necessary prior to calling
 the underlying 1-d function.
 The temporary buffers are created in (element) sizes no bigger than the
 user settable buffer-size value.
 Thus, the loop must be flexible enough to call the underlying 1-d computational
 loop enough times to complete the total calculation in chunks no bigger
 than the buffer-size.
 
\begin_inset LatexCommand index
name "ufunc|)"

\end_inset


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