On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > >> BTW, I wouldn't mind extending the string input argument conversion >> support >> to everything that supports the buffer protocol. > > That might be interesting, though one difficulty is that buffers in > general don't have a intrinsic notion of length. (Technically, nor do > strings, null terminated strings encoded with null-free encodings are > common enough to make char* useable.) >
I see, then in the near future I'll be able to create a numpy array with "unsigned char" dtype (let say, for storing a 8-bit image?). But at some point, I'll mistakenly pass these arrays to something accepting 'bytes'... No, -1, do not do that please. Explicit is better than exlicit. Error should never pass silently. -- Lisandro Dalcín --------------- Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
