On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:30, Citi, Luca<lc...@essex.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello Gaël, > > I think it might be an option. > > Also one could have an internal flag which says whether or not is safe > to overwrite inputs with ref_count=1. > Then import_array() sets this flag to "unsafe" (i.e. current behaviour). > If the user of the numpy C-api is aware of how the new feature works, > he/she can enable it by switching the flag to "safe" and act accordingly > (increase refcounts before / decrease after) whenever he/she needs an array > for later reuse. > If possible, when imported from python (is there a way to know it? is > import_array() called anyway?) the flag could be set to "safe".
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