Currently fails with:

/home/kirr/src/wendelin/wendelin.core/lib/xnumpy.py in restructure(arr, dtype)
     82     print 'stridev:', stridev
     83     #return np.ndarray.__new__(type(arr), shape, dtype, buffer(arr), 0, stridev)
---> 84     return np.ndarray(shape, dtype, buffer(arr), 0, stridev)

TypeError: expected a single-segment buffer object