[SciPy-dev] Problem with ravel for non-contiguous 1-d arrays

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

Hi,

Here is a simple example that works with numeric/numarray but fails
with scipy.

>>> import scipy
>>> data = scipy.array([[0,0,0,10], [1,0,0,20], [0,1,0,20], [0,0,1,30]], 'f')
>>> p = data[:,:3]
>>> z = scipy.ravel(p)
>>> z.flags.contiguous
True

# So far so good...

>>> t = data[:,-1]
>>> t.flags.contiguous
False
>>> z = scipy.ravel(t)
>>> z.flags.contiguous
False

As you can see, the 1D array when ravelled does is still
non-contiguous.  However, scipy.flatten does the job correctly but
always makes a copy (which is something I don't want).
Numeric/numarray work correctly.

cheers,
prabhu