[Numpy-discussion] Sharing Data

[Chris P. <chr...@ro...>]

I would like to make a numarray array that shares data with a Numeric array
and/or with a PIL Image.

As an example of the sort of thing I want to do:

>>> import Numeric, Image, ImageDraw
>>> a = Numeric.zeros((8,8), 'b')
>>> im = Image.frombuffer('L', a.shape[::-1], a)
>>> im.readonly = False
>>> d = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
>>> d.line((0,0,8,8), fill=255)
>>> a
array([[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 255],
[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 255, 0],
[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 255, 0, 0],
[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 255, 0, 0, 0],
[ 0, 0, 0, 255, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[ 0, 0, 255, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[ 0, 255, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[255, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]],'b')

So with Numeric, I can have bidirectional data sharing between an array and
an Image object. I have been unable to do the same using a numarray array.
Does anyone know whether there is a way to do this?

Chris Perkins