Fix Ticket numpy#352

THANKS.txt

@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@ Francesc Altet for unicode and nested record tests
     and much help with rooting out nested record array bugs. 
 Tim Hochberg for getting the build working on MSVC, optimization 
     improvements, and code review
-Charles Harris for the sorting code originally written for Numarray and for    improvements to polyfit, many bug fixes, and documentation strings.
+Charles Harris for the sorting code originally written for Numarray and 
+    for improvements to polyfit, many bug fixes, and documentation strings.

numpy/core/src/arrayobject.c

@@ -4749,41 +4749,44 @@ array_richcompare(PyArrayObject *self, PyObject *other, int cmp_op)
 static PyObject *
 _check_axis(PyArrayObject *arr, int *axis, int flags)
 {
-        PyObject *temp;
+        PyObject *temp1, *temp2;
         int n = arr->nd;
 
         if ((*axis >= MAX_DIMS) || (n==0)) {
                 if (n != 1) {
-                        temp = PyArray_Ravel(arr,0);
-                        if (temp) *axis = PyArray_NDIM(temp)-1;
-                        else *axis = 0;
+                        temp1 = PyArray_Ravel(arr,0);
+                        if (temp1 == NULL) {*axis=0; return NULL;}
+                        *axis = PyArray_NDIM(temp1)-1;
                 }
                 else {
-                        temp = (PyObject *)arr;
-                        Py_INCREF(temp);
+                        temp1 = (PyObject *)arr;
+                        Py_INCREF(temp1);
                         *axis = 0;
                 }
-                return temp;
+                if (!flags) return temp1;
         }
         else {
-                if (flags) {
-                        temp = PyArray_CheckFromAny((PyObject *)arr, NULL,
-                                               0, 0, flags, NULL);
-                        if (temp == NULL) return NULL;
-                }
-                else {
-                        Py_INCREF(arr);
-                        temp = (PyObject *)arr;
-                }
+                temp1 = (PyObject *)arr;
+                Py_INCREF(temp1);
         }
+        if (flags) {
+                temp2 = PyArray_CheckFromAny((PyObject *)temp1, NULL,
+                                             0, 0, flags, NULL);
+                Py_DECREF(temp1);
+                if (temp2 == NULL) return NULL;
+        }
+        else {
+                temp2 = (PyObject *)temp1;
+        }
+        n = PyArray_NDIM(temp2);
         if (*axis < 0) *axis += n;
         if ((*axis < 0) || (*axis >= n)) {
                 PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
                              "axis(=%d) out of bounds", *axis);
-                Py_DECREF(temp);
+                Py_DECREF(temp2);
                 return NULL;
         }
-        return temp;
+        return temp2;
 }
 
 #include "arraymethods.c"

numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py

@@ -537,6 +537,12 @@ def check_reshape_order(self, level=rlevel):
         a = N.array([[1,2],[3,4],[5,6],[7,8]])
         b = a[:,1]
         assert_equal(b.reshape(2,2,order='F'), [[2,6],[4,8]])
+
+    def check_repeat_discont(self, level=rlevel):
+        """Ticket #352"""
+        a = N.arange(12).reshape(4,3)[:,2]
+        assert_equal(a.repeat(3), [2,2,2,5,5,5,8,8,8,11,11,11])
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     NumpyTest().run()