On 10/31/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm recruiting more comments on python-dev regarding my two proposals > for improving Python's native ability to share ndarray-like information. >
I would love to help, but I feel that I will be on the other side of the disagreement. (That's why I reply here rather than on python-dev first.) I've suggested that numpy could use ctypes way to describe binary data a long time ago: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15395017 I agree that it would not work out of the box, but I don't see any major obstacles to adding the missing features. I think we should attempt to implement a ctypes approach and compare the result to the dtype object approach. If we discover any unimplementable features along the way, this will be a strong argument to abandon ctypes as a standard. The last time I looked at the issue, the only feature that ctypes were lacking for me was the itemsize information (endianness is probably lacking as well, but I did not need it.) I am not sure, however that this information belongs to the type description object rather than carried separately. Note that it is trivial to add an itemsize attribute to ctypes because each primitive ctype has a fixed itemsize and Structure can easily compute its itemsize. Doubling the number of ctypes to allow for different endianness is a more troubling proposition. In any case, I think we should seriously discuss the relative merits of the two approaches on this list and present our view to python-dev when we reach some consensus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
