Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deleting arrays.

[Konrad H. <hi...@cn...>]

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 22:10, Andrea Riciputi wrote:

> anymore. These arrays have been created on the C side of my code and
> then copied (actually linked via PyArray_FromDimsAndData) to Numeric
> arrays. How can I release these arrays and get back memory in order to
> be able to start the next run?

I am not aware of any clean way. A hack that might help you out is

   array->flags |=3D OWN_DATA;

The data will then be freed when the array is released. However, there ar=
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few caveats:
1) This is not documented.
2) It works only if the data was allocated by the same memory manager tha=
t
   is used by NumPy.
3) You have to make sure that no other code keeps a reference to the data=
=2E

If modifying the C code is an option, then it is probably the better one.

Konrad.
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