Re: [Numpy-discussion] Arithmetic on arrays of pointers

2009-04-29 Thread Dan Goodman
Thanks Chris and Stefan, In the end, I'm going to take both your advice and not do this after all. Actually I worked out another way to do the same thing. Essentially, rather than store a pointer I store a reference to the array, and an array of indices in that array. Much safer and the things

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Arithmetic on arrays of pointers

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Barker
Dan Goodman wrote: > (because I want to construct the 1D arrays X, Y above from values picked > from a variety of possible data structures, including dense and sparse > 2D arrays, but in such a way that the code that uses these values > doesn't have to know where the values came from in these da

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Arithmetic on arrays of pointers

2009-04-29 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
Hi Dan 2009/4/29 Dan Goodman : > I have a slightly strange idea for something I would like to do with > numpy which I guess probably doesn't exist, but I may be wrong. What I > want to do, essentially, is to have two arrays of equal size, say X and > Y, of pointers to doubles say. Then I want to d

[Numpy-discussion] Arithmetic on arrays of pointers

2009-04-28 Thread Dan Goodman
Hi all, I have a slightly strange idea for something I would like to do with numpy which I guess probably doesn't exist, but I may be wrong. What I want to do, essentially, is to have two arrays of equal size, say X and Y, of pointers to doubles say. Then I want to do (in C notation) *x += *y