[NumPy-Tickets] [NumPy] #1753: empty_like not passing across attributes of memmap objects

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#1753: empty_like not passing across attributes of memmap objects
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 Reporter:  bryancole   |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:  2.0.0   
Component:  numpy.core  |     Version:  1.5.1   
 Keywords:  memmap      |  
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 If I create a memmap object:
 {{{
 >>> a = numpy.memmap("foo", mode="w+", shape=10)
 }}}
 then later I create a new array thus:
 {{{
 >>> b = numpy.empty_like(a)
 }}}
 then b is also a memmap object. However, even though the type of b is
 'memmap', it has no _mmap attribute (as you'd expect, since empty_like
 cannot know what file object to use).

 The broken memmap object b causes failures elsewhere in __array_finalise__
 as it tries to copy attributes from b (filename, offset, mode) which do
 not exist.

 In summary there are TWO bugs here:

  1) empty_like (and friends) should not return objects of type memmap

  2) the memmap.__array_finalise__ method is checking for the existence of
 the _mmap attribute. In non-memmap objects, this may exist but be set to
 None, therefore this method needs to check that both _mmap exists as an
 attribute and is not None.

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