boost python - nullptr while extracting ndarray

问题:

I have a C++ code which execute python script with boost_python package. Everything is fine, as longa as I extract int, string, or other not-array variables from python. However I have to extract a numpy::ndarray and convert it to cpp vector. I tried as follow:

main.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/python.hpp>
#include <boost/python/numpy.hpp>

using namespace boost::python;

int main()
double t_end=7
    try
    {
    Py_Initialize();
    object module = import("__main__");
    object name_space = module.attr("__dict__");
    exec_file("MyModule.py", name_space, name_space);

    object MyFunc = name_space["MyFunc"];
    object result = MyFunc(t_end);

    auto result_array = extract<numpy::ndarray>(result);
    const numpy::ndarray& ret = result_array();
    int input_size = ret.shape(0);
    double* input_ptr = reinterpret_cast<double*>(ret.get_data());
    std::vector<double> v(input_size);
    for (int i = 0; i < input_size; ++i)
        v[i] = *(input_ptr + i);
}
catch (error_already_set)
{
    PyErr_Print();
}

Py_Finalize();

And example py script:

MyModule.py

import numpy as np
def MyFunc(t_end):
    result = np.array([2,3,1,t_end])
    return results

However it ends with error:

read access violation BOOST_NUMPY_ARRAY_API was nullptr

I also was trying to declare numpy::ndarray directly like numpy::ndarray result_array = extract<numpy::ndarray>(result); But the error is exactly the same. I've checked if my ndarray is not empty by printing it directly from python, and it is not. At the python step all seems to be correct. So what is causing the violation and how to fix it?

回答1:

That error occurs since you're using the numpy module without first initializing it.

Notice the beginning of the official tutorial:

Initialise the Python runtime, and the numpy module. Failure to call these results in segmentation errors:

namespace np = boost::python::numpy;
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  Py_Initialize();
  np::initialize();

Your code is lacking the call to np::initialize();.