[Numpy-discussion] Pointers to arrays in C

[Jose Martin]

Thanks for the fast responses!

> data. Storing bare pointers in the C side and not holding a
> reference to the object providing the data in the C side is really 
> error prone.

It's true, I don't do it because I have to process a large number of arrays, and each has thousands of elements; so I tried to avoid making copies because it'd make it slow. 

 
> another option is that you could increase the reference count to 
> that array in your C code (Py_INCREF). Then it would not be 
> destroyed on the Python side. However, you'd have to make sure you
> Py_DECREF it when you don't need it anymore.

Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't know that was possible; I'm new to python.

-Jose  





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