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Subject: Re: Interfacing a dynamic shared library gives me different results in 2.7 versus 3.5
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On Wed, 25 May 2016 02:45:30 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>
>I'm not certain of the in-memory representation of a numpy array, but
>it wouldn't surprise me if it's just a series of consecutive
>ints/floats - which would be exactly what a C or Fortran library will
>be expecting. So my understanding is that there's some basic ctypes
>wrapper code to locate the base address of the array, and then it
>passes that straight along.
>
	That leads to the question: Row-major or Column-major...

	Could have a very significant affect taking a row-major array and
passing it to code using a column-major convention.
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