[Numpy-discussion] swig numpy2carray converters

[Christopher Barker]

Georg Holzmann wrote:
> As chris said, I need to make an example:
> http://grh.mur.at/software/numpy2carray.tar.gz

Ah, I see now:

   /// @return internal big data without copying
   void getBigData(double **mtx, int *rows, int *cols)
   {
     *rows = drows; *cols = dcols;
     *mtx = very_big_data;
   }

This is the one we've been talking about, correct?

So you need to pass a pointer to a pointer in, and it gets set to the 
existing pointer -- thus no new data allocation.

It's going to take Bill to figure out how to extend numpy.i to cover 
this case, but imagine it will be pretty straightforward.

Thanks for the examples.

-Chris



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