Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r1673:1e723dc022fe Date: 2015-03-17 11:03 +0100 http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/1e723dc022fe/
Log: Clarify this point in the docs diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1260,7 +1260,8 @@ buffer interface. This is the opposite of ``ffi.buffer()``. It gives a (read-write) reference to the existing data, not a copy; for this reason, and for PyPy compatibility, it does not work with the built-in -types str or unicode or bytearray. It is meant to be used on objects +types str or unicode or bytearray (or buffers/memoryviews on them). +It is meant to be used on objects containing large quantities of raw data, like ``array.array`` or numpy arrays. It supports both the old buffer API (in Python 2.x) and the new memoryview API. The original object is kept alive (and, in case _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
