[Numpy-discussion] can't resize ndarray subclass

[Tim Hochberg]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

> Zachary Pincus wrote:
>
>> However a new problem has me nearly tearing my hair out. Calling the  
>> resize method on an instance of such a subclass works fine. However,  
>> calling a method that calls 'self.resize' breaks! And worse, it  
>> breaks in such a way that then subsequent calls to resize also break.
>
>
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> In SVN version of numpy, there is a new keyword argument to resize 
> (refcheck).  If this keyword argument is 0 (it defaults to 1), the 
> reference-count check is not performed.  Thus, if you are sure that 
> your array has not exposed it's memory to another object, then you can 
> set refcheck=0 and the resize will proceed.

I'd suggest that this get exposed as a separate function, for instance 
A._unchecked_resize(size). It seems much less likely that this will 
accidentally get called than that somone will mistakenly throw a second 
boolean argument into resize.

-tim

> If you really did expose your memory to another object, this could 
> lead to segfaults in exactly the same way that exposing the memory to 
> a Python array (array module) and then later resizing (which Python 
> currently allows) would cause problems.
>
> Be careful...
>
> -Travis
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