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Failure to call these results in segmentation errors:</p> 81<div class="highlight-c++"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kt">int</span> <span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kt">int</span> <span class="n">argc</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kt">char</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">argv</span><span class="p">)</span> 82<span class="p">{</span> 83 <span class="n">Py_Initialize</span><span class="p">();</span> 84 <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">initialize</span><span class="p">();</span> 85</pre></div> 86</div> 87<p>Zero filled n-dimensional arrays can be created using the shape and data-type of the array as a parameter. Here, the shape is 3x3 and the datatype is the built-in float type:</p> 88<div class="highlight-c++"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">p</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">tuple</span> <span class="n">shape</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">p</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">make_tuple</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">);</span> 89<span class="n">np</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">dtype</span> <span class="n">dtype</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">dtype</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">get_builtin</span><span class="o"><</span><span class="kt">float</span><span class="o">></span><span class="p">();</span> 90<span class="n">np</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">ndarray</span> <span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dtype</span><span class="p">);</span> 91</pre></div> 92</div> 93<p>You can also create an empty array like this</p> 94<div class="highlight-c++"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">ndarray</span> <span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">empty</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">dtype</span><span class="p">);</span> 95</pre></div> 96</div> 97<p>Print the original and reshaped array. The array a which is a list is first converted to a string, and each value in the list is extracted using extract< >:</p> 98<div class="highlight-c++"><div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="n">std</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">cout</span> <span class="o"><<</span> <span class="s">"Original array:</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o"><<</span> <span class="n">p</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">extract</span><span class="o"><</span><span class="kt">char</span> <span class="k">const</span> <span class="o">*></span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">p</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o"><<</span> <span class="n">std</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">endl</span><span class="p">;</span> 99 100 <span class="c1">// Reshape the array into a 1D array</span> 101 <span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">reshape</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">p</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">make_tuple</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">9</span><span class="p">));</span> 102 <span class="c1">// Print it again.</span> 103 <span class="n">std</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">cout</span> <span class="o"><<</span> <span class="s">"Reshaped array:</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o"><<</span> <span class="n">p</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">extract</span><span class="o"><</span><span class="kt">char</span> <span class="k">const</span> <span class="o">*></span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">p</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o"><<</span> <span class="n">std</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="n">endl</span><span class="p">;</span> 104<span class="p">}</span> 105</pre></div> 106</div> 107</div> 108 109 110 <div class="navbar" style="text-align:right;"> 111 112 113 <a class="prev" title="Boost.Python NumPy extension Tutorial" href="index.html"><img src="../_static/prev.png" alt="prev"/></a> 114 <a class="up" title="Boost.Python NumPy extension Tutorial" href="index.html"><img src="../_static/up.png" alt="up"/></a> 115 <a class="next" title="How to use dtypes" href="dtype.html"><img src="../_static/next.png" alt="next"/></a> 116 117 </div> 118 </div> 119 </body> 120</html>
