memoryview (np.asarray) on struct with bitfields

[Brent Pedersen]

Hi, I have this C struct:

typedef struct {

  uint8_t reverse_strand:1, base: 7;

} basestrand_t;

and I'm trying to access it as:

     dt = np.dtype([('reverse_strand', np.bool, 1), ('base', np.byte, 1)])

     cdef np.uint8_t *bs = <np.uint8_t *>self.c.bases

     return np.asarray(<np.uint8_t[:self.c.n]>bs, dtype=dt)

but it seems 1. that maybe numpy doesn't support dtypes with bitfields or 2. I am doing something incorrectly.

Either way, is there a way that I can get a view into an array of this type of struct?

thanks,

-Brent