Christopher Barker wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>> Christopher Barker wrote:
> 
>>> agreed, though I may never use the stuff used to process XML docs, but 
>>> it gets first class treatment...
>> There really isn't any special "stuff used to process XML docs" in Cython. 
>> There 
>> is special stuff in Cython to interact with numpy arrays.
> 
> I never used the term "special". My point was that for many users, 
> working with numpy arrays may be just as or more important that python 
> strings (or even lists, etc.) As I see it, the only thing "special" 
> about numpy arrays is that they are not part of the standard library 
> (which I think they should be) -- but they are part of the standard 
> Cython distro.

My point in adding the "special" is to note that you probably *are* using the 
Cython features that are used in lxml whereas most people not using numpy will 
never touch the buffer syntax.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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