Re: [Numpy-discussion] checking identity of arrays?

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John J. Lee:

>I must be missing something obvious: how does one check if two variables
>refer to the same array object?

Paul Dubois:

>if a is b:

I thought he was asking something different.  Suppose I do this:

a = zeros(100)
b = a[10:20]

Now b is a view of a's data.  Is there any way to test that
a and b refer to the same data?  (Even if this was not John's
question, I'm curious to know the answer.)