Re: [Numpy-discussion] fromiter and objects

2006-11-29 Thread Travis Oliphant
Tim Hochberg wrote: >things are often not as easy as they appear, the real reason I'm writing >is this comment that explains why object arrays are disallowed in >fromiter (multiarraymodule.c::PyArray_:FromIter) > >/* We would need to alter the memory RENEW code to decrement any >

[Numpy-discussion] fromiter and objects

2006-11-19 Thread Tim Hochberg
I was looking at fromiter again today with an eye toward extending it to accept iterators of sequences instead of just iterators of scalars. For example: fromiter(([x, x // 2, x+5] for x in range(1000)), dtype=int) This would result in a shape-(1000,3) array. At first glance at least, thi