[Numpy-discussion] Resize Method for Numpy Array

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 18:05, Sturla Molden <sturla@molden.no> wrote:
> Robert Kern skrev:
>> collections.deque() is a linked list of 64-item chunks.
>>
> Thanks for that useful information. :-) But it would not help much for a
> binary tree...
>
> Since we are on the NumPy list... One could image making linked lists
> using NumPy  arrays with dtype=object. They are storage efficient like
> tuples, and mutable like lists.
>
> def cons(a,b):
>    return np.array((a,b),dtype=object)
>
> But I guess the best way is to implement a real linked extension type in
> Cython.

Yup!

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Robert Kern

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