[SciPy-dev] copy on write?

[Robert Kern]

Nathan Bell wrote:
> Is there any support for copy on write behavior in numpy?

No.

> Short of COW, can one easily get the refcount of an ndarray (in Python)?

sys.getrefcount(obj). Note that calling sys.getrefcount() adds a reference to
obj while it's running, so the usual value is 2.

-- 
Robert Kern

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