[Numpy-discussion] Inplace reshape

[Pierre GM]

On Monday 23 April 2007 13:36:26 Christopher Barker wrote:
> Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> > Unless I miss something obvious "a.reshape()" doesn't modify a, which is
> > somewhat missleading, IMHO.
>
> quite correct. .reshape() creates a new array that shared data with the
> original:

Mmh. My understanding is that .reshape() creates a *view* of the original 
array, so no data is actually copied. The only thing that changes is how the 
data is read. That means that modifying the reshaped version will modify the 
original.

So:

>>>import numpy as N
>>>a=N.zeros((3,2))
array([[ 0.,  0.,  0.],
        [ 0.,  0.,  0.]])
>>>b=a.reshape(6,)
>>>b
array([ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.])

>>>b += 1
>>>b
array([ 1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.])
>>>a
array([[ 1.,  1.],
       [ 1.,  1.],
       [ 1.,  1.]])