enthought/distarray — pull request #138 by bgrant (2014-02-19 19:36:47+00:00)
Title: Generalize `from_distarray` to take a dict or an object

This is a simple change to `from_distarray` that I found useful when looking at Distributed IO. It changes `from_distarray` to take *either*

1) an object with a `__distarray__()` method that returns a "distbuffer" or
2) the "distbuffer" dictionary directly.

The original commit is cherry-picked from the `feature/flat-file-io` branch, but I added some tests.