On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:12 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a look at the new memoryview and associated buffer API > and have a question: how is a C extension supposed to use the buffer > API without going directly into the C struct Py_buffer ? > > I have not found any macros for accessing Py_buffer internals and > the docs mention the struct members directly (which is a bit unusual > for the Python C API). > > Shouldn't there be a set of macros providing some form of abstraction > for the struct members ? > > BTW: I was looking for a suitable replacement for the buffer object > which isn't available in Python 3 anymore. > > Thanks, > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > eGenix.com
>From what I understand of the memoryview when I tried to do the same thing a few months ago (use memoryview to replace buffer in asyncore/asynchat), memoryview is incomplete. It didn't support character buffer slicing (you know, the 'offset' and 'size' arguments that were in buffer), and at least a handful of other things (that I can't remember at the moment). - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
