Moved the second snippet from working with python arrays to the example directory for testing.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/docs/examples/tutorial/array/overhead.pyx b/docs/examples/tutorial/array/overhead.pyx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e385bff3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/tutorial/array/overhead.pyx
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from cpython cimport array

+import array

+

+cdef array.array a = array.array('i', [1, 2, 3])

+cdef int[:] ca = a

+

+cdef int overhead(object a):

+    cdef int[:] ca = a

+    return ca[0]

+

+cdef int no_overhead(int[:] ca):

+    return ca[0]

+

+print(overhead(a))  # new memory view will be constructed, overhead

+print(no_overhead(ca))  # ca is already a memory view, so no overhead

diff --git a/docs/src/tutorial/array.rst b/docs/src/tutorial/array.rst
index 1edb540be..2d1faf5d1 100644
--- a/docs/src/tutorial/array.rst
+++ b/docs/src/tutorial/array.rst
@@ -30,22 +30,10 @@ documentation for the `array module <http://docs.python.org/library/array.html>`
 Notice that when a Python array is assigned to a variable typed as
 memory view, there will be a slight overhead to construct the memory
 view. However, from that point on the variable can be passed to other
-functions without overhead, so long as it is typed::
+functions without overhead, so long as it is typed:
 
-    from cpython cimport array
-    import array
-    cdef array.array a = array.array('i', [1, 2, 3])
-    cdef int[:] ca = a
-
-    cdef int overhead(object a):
-        cdef int[:] ca = a
-        return ca[0]
-
-    cdef int no_overhead(int[:] ca):
-        return ca[0]
+.. literalinclude:: ../../examples/tutorial/array/overhead.pyx
 
-    print(overhead(a))  # new memory view will be constructed, overhead
-    print(no_overhead(ca))  # ca is already a memory view, so no overhead
 
 Zero-overhead, unsafe access to raw C pointer
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