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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/core/defchararray.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/core/defchararray.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/defchararray.py b/numpy/core/defchararray.py index 6300eb92e..933b4d5ce 100644 --- a/numpy/core/defchararray.py +++ b/numpy/core/defchararray.py @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import sys __all__ = ['chararray'] _globalvar = 0 +_unicode = unicode # special sub-class for character arrays (string and unicode_) # This adds equality testing and methods of str and unicode types @@ -320,7 +321,7 @@ def array(obj, itemsize=None, copy=True, unicode=False, fortran=False): if itemsize is not None: dtype += str(itemsize) - if isinstance(obj, str) or isinstance(obj, unicode): + if isinstance(obj, (str, _unicode)): if itemsize is None: itemsize = len(obj) shape = len(obj) / itemsize @@ -330,9 +331,7 @@ def array(obj, itemsize=None, copy=True, unicode=False, fortran=False): # default val = narray(obj, dtype=dtype, fortran=fortran, subok=1) - return chararray(val.shape, itemsize, unicode, buffer=val, - strides=val.strides, - fortran=fortran) + return val.view(chararray) def asarray(obj, itemsize=None, unicode=False, fortran=False): return array(obj, itemsize, copy=False, |