// Copyright Jim Bosch 2011-2012. // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. // (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) /** * A simple example showing how to wrap a couple of C++ functions that * operate on 2-d arrays into Python functions that take NumPy arrays * as arguments. * * If you find have a lot of such functions to wrap, you may want to * create a C++ array type (or use one of the many existing C++ array * libraries) that maps well to NumPy arrays and create Boost.Python * converters. There's more work up front than the approach here, * but much less boilerplate per function. See the "Gaussian" example * included with Boost.NumPy for an example of custom converters, or * take a look at the "ndarray" project on GitHub for a more complete, * high-level solution. * * Note that we're using embedded Python here only to make a convenient * self-contained example; you could just as easily put the wrappers * in a regular C++-compiled module and imported them in regular * Python. Again, see the Gaussian demo for an example. */ #include #include #include namespace p = boost::python; namespace np = boost::python::numpy; // This is roughly the most efficient way to write a C/C++ function that operates // on a 2-d NumPy array - operate directly on the array by incrementing a pointer // with the strides. void fill1(double * array, int rows, int cols, int row_stride, int col_stride) { double * row_iter = array; double n = 0.0; // just a counter we'll fill the array with. for (int i = 0; i < rows; ++i, row_iter += row_stride) { double * col_iter = row_iter; for (int j = 0; j < cols; ++j, col_iter += col_stride) { *col_iter = ++n; } } } // Here's a simple wrapper function for fill1. It requires that the passed // NumPy array be exactly what we're looking for - no conversion from nested // sequences or arrays with other data types, because we want to modify it // in-place. void wrap_fill1(np::ndarray const & array) { if (array.get_dtype() != np::dtype::get_builtin()) { PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Incorrect array data type"); p::throw_error_already_set(); } if (array.get_nd() != 2) { PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Incorrect number of dimensions"); p::throw_error_already_set(); } fill1(reinterpret_cast(array.get_data()), array.shape(0), array.shape(1), array.strides(0) / sizeof(double), array.strides(1) / sizeof(double)); } // Another fill function that takes a double**. This is less efficient, because // it's not the native NumPy data layout, but it's common enough in C/C++ that // it's worth its own example. This time we don't pass the strides, and instead // in wrap_fill2 we'll require the C_CONTIGUOUS bitflag, which guarantees that // the column stride is 1 and the row stride is the number of columns. That // restricts the arrays that can be passed to fill2 (it won't work on most // subarray views or transposes, for instance). void fill2(double ** array, int rows, int cols) { double n = 0.0; // just a counter we'll fill the array with. for (int i = 0; i < rows; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j < cols; ++j) { array[i][j] = ++n; } } } // Here's the wrapper for fill2; it's a little more complicated because we need // to check the flags and create the array of pointers. void wrap_fill2(np::ndarray const & array) { if (array.get_dtype() != np::dtype::get_builtin()) { PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Incorrect array data type"); p::throw_error_already_set(); } if (array.get_nd() != 2) { PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Incorrect number of dimensions"); p::throw_error_already_set(); } if (!(array.get_flags() & np::ndarray::C_CONTIGUOUS)) { PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Array must be row-major contiguous"); p::throw_error_already_set(); } double * iter = reinterpret_cast(array.get_data()); int rows = array.shape(0); int cols = array.shape(1); boost::scoped_array ptrs(new double*[rows]); for (int i = 0; i < rows; ++i, iter += cols) { ptrs[i] = iter; } fill2(ptrs.get(), array.shape(0), array.shape(1)); } BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(example) { np::initialize(); // have to put this in any module that uses Boost.NumPy p::def("fill1", wrap_fill1); p::def("fill2", wrap_fill2); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { // This line makes our module available to the embedded Python intepreter. # if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x03000000 PyImport_AppendInittab("example", &PyInit_example); # else PyImport_AppendInittab("example", &initexample); # endif // Initialize the Python runtime. Py_Initialize(); PyRun_SimpleString( "import example\n" "import numpy\n" "z1 = numpy.zeros((5,6), dtype=float)\n" "z2 = numpy.zeros((4,3), dtype=float)\n" "example.fill1(z1)\n" "example.fill2(z2)\n" "print z1\n" "print z2\n" ); Py_Finalize(); }