[Cython] A few suggestions for the numpy tutorial documentation...

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Robert Kern wrote:

> On 2009-04-28 01:05, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> [Mike Fletcher wrote:]
>>>      * You have to call import_array() in your module or many of the
>>>        Numpy C API entry points will segfault
>>
>> Are you sure about this? I never do it. I know you need to do it  
>> from C
>> code, but is it not enough in Cython to do
>>
>> import numpy
>>
>> ?
>
> If you call any of the PyArray_* functions, you will need an  
> import_array()
> call. That does not just import numpy; it sets up the function  
> pointer table in
> your extension module such that the PyArray_* #defines reference  
> the right
> functions.

So "import numpy" doesn't call import_array() then?

- Robert