Special Sub-classes in ACORN¶
Some of the special C-extension objects that are wrapped by python run into
issues with decoration. The poster-child for this is numpy.ndarray. In
order to have its instance and special method calls be wrapped, the object needs
to be sub-classed using numpy specific method calls and syntax (such as
__arraywrap__). For cases such as these, acorn allows a developer to create
a special module in acorn.subclass._package, for a special
package. Thus, acorn has a special numpy.ndarray subclass in
acorn.subclass._numpy. Subclasses are specified in the acorn
Global and Package Configuration in ACORN file so that they can be automatically incorporated by the
decoration machinery.
numpy Special Sub-class¶
Module for implementing the difficult case of array sub-classing for numpy. This is necessary because of the C-extension nature of the numpy package and complications with array slices etc. See http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/basics.subclassing.html.