[Numpy-discussion] Ransom Proposals

[Tim Hochberg]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

> Sasha wrote:
>
>> I never said that. What I said was x.reshape(shape) returns x itself
>> if shape==x.shape and a view othrwise.  
>
> Is this true?  I just checked on it and it didn't seem to be the 
> case.  Perhaps this was "fixed" during the recent reshape bug-fix.
>
It looks like the bug is in PyArray_Ravel. array_reshape calls 
PyArray_Ravel if the newshape has dimension-1 (line 77 of array_methods.c):

        if (newshape.len == 1) {
            PyDimMem_FREE(newshape.ptr);
            return PyArray_Ravel(self, 0);
        }

Ravel in turn, returns self if the array is already flat (line 187 of 
multiarray_module.c):

        if (!fortran && PyArray_ISCONTIGUOUS(a)) {
            if (a->nd == 1) {
                Py_INCREF(a);
                return (PyObject *)a;
            }
            return PyArray_Newshape(a, &newdim, PyArray_CORDER);
        }

It looks like ripping out the second if statement would fix everything, 
but I haven't tried it yet.

-tim