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# Boost.Python

## Header <boost/python/numeric.hpp>

## Contents

Introduction
Classes
  Class `array`
    Class `array` synopsis
    Class `array` observer functions
    Class `array` static functions
Example(s)

## Introduction

Exposes a TypeWrapper for the Python array type.

## Classes

### Class `array`

Provides access to the array types of Numerical Python's Numeric and NumArray modules. With the exception of the functions documented below, the semantics of the constructors and member functions defined below can be fully understood by reading the TypeWrapper concept definition. Since `array` is publicly derived from `object`, the public object interface applies to `array` instances as well.

The default behavior is to use `numarray.NDArray` as the associated Python type if the `numarray` module is installed in the default location. Otherwise it falls back to use `Numeric.ArrayType`. If neither extension module is installed, conversions to arguments of type `numeric::array` will cause overload resolution to reject the overload, and other attempted uses of `numeric::array` will raise an appropriate Python exception. The associated Python type can be set manually using the `set_module_and_type(...)` static function.

#### Class `array` synopsis

    namespace boost { namespace python { namespace numeric
    {
       class array : public object
       {
        public:
          object astype();
          template <class Type>
          object astype(Type const& type_);

          template <class Type>
          object new_(Type const& type_) const;

          template <class Sequence>
          void resize(Sequence const& x);
          void resize(long x1);
          void resize(long x1, long x2);
          ...
          void resize(long x1, long x2,...long xn);

          template <class Sequence>
          void setshape(Sequence const& x);
          void setshape(long x1);
          void setshape(long x1, long x2);
          ...
          void setshape(long x1, long x2,...long xn);

          template <class Indices, class Values>
          void put(Indices const& indices, Values const& values);

          template <class Sequence>
          object take(Sequence const& sequence, long axis = 0);

          template <class File>
          void tofile(File const& f) const;

          object factory();
          template <class Buffer>
          object factory(Buffer const&);
          template <class Buffer, class Type>
          object factory(Buffer const&, Type const&);
          template <class Buffer, class Type, class Shape>
          object factory(Buffer const&, Type const&, Shape const&, bool copy = true, bool savespace = false);
          template <class Buffer, class Type, class Shape>
          object factory(Buffer const&, Type const&, Shape const&, bool copy, bool savespace, char typecode);

          template <class T1>
          explicit array(T1 const& x1);
          template <class T1, class T2>
          explicit array(T1 const& x1, T2 const& x2);
          ...
          template <class T1, class T2,...class Tn>
          explicit array(T1 const& x1, T2 const& x2,...Tn const& xn);

          static void set_module_and_type();
          static void set_module_and_type(char const* package_path = 0, char const* type_name = 0);

          object argmax(long axis=-1);

          object argmin(long axis=-1);

          object argsort(long axis=-1);

          void byteswap();

          object copy() const;

          object diagonal(long offset = 0, long axis1 = 0, long axis2 = 1) const;

          void info() const;

          bool is_c_array() const;
          bool isbyteswapped() const;
          void sort();
          object trace(long offset = 0, long axis1 = 0, long axis2 = 1) const;
          object type() const;
          char typecode() const;

          object getflat() const;
          long getrank() const;
          object getshape() const;
          bool isaligned() const;
          bool iscontiguous() const;
          long itemsize() const;
          long nelements() const;
          object nonzero() const;

          void ravel();

          object repeat(object const& repeats, long axis=0);

          void setflat(object const& flat);

          void swapaxes(long axis1, long axis2);

          str tostring() const;

          void transpose(object const& axes = object());

          object view() const;
      };
    }}}

#### Class `array` observer functions

    object factory();
    template <class Buffer>
    object factory(Buffer const&);
    template <class Buffer, class Type>
    object factory(Buffer const&, Type const&);
    template <class Buffer, class Type, class Shape>
    object factory(Buffer const&, Type const&, Shape const&, bool copy = true, bool savespace = false);
    template <class Buffer, class Type, class Shape>
    object factory(Buffer const&, Type const&, Shape const&, bool copy, bool savespace, char typecode);

These functions map to the underlying array type's `array()` function family. They are not called "`array`" because of the C++ limitation that you can't define a member function with the same name as its enclosing class.

    template <class Type>
    object new_(Type const&) const;

This function maps to the underlying array type's `new()` function. It is not called "`new`" because that is a keyword in C++.

#### Class `array` static functions

    static void set_module_and_type(char const* package_path, char const* type_name);
    static void set_module_and_type();

Requires: `package_path` and `type_name`, if supplied, is an ntbs.
Effects: The first form sets the package path of the module which supplies the type named by `type_name` to `package_path`. The second form restores the default search behavior. The associated Python type will be searched for only the first time it is needed, and thereafter the first time it is needed after an invocation of `set_module_and_type`.

## Example

    #include <boost/python/numeric.hpp>
    #include <boost/python/tuple.hpp>

    // sets the first element in a 2d numeric array
    void set_first_element(numeric::array& y, double value)
    {
        y[make_tuple(0,0)] = value;
    }

Revised 03 October, 2002

© Copyright Dave Abrahams 2002.