M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > I find the implementation of the buffer protocol way too complicated. > One of the reasons why the buffer protocol in Python 2 never caught > on was the fact that it was too complicated and the Python 3 is > even worse in this respect. > > In practice you do want to have the ability to hook directly into the > data buffer of an object, but apart from some special needs that PIL > and the numeric folks may have, most users will just want to work > with a single contiguous chunk of memory and need a simple API to > do this - pass in an object, get a void* back.
Cython makes it that easy to access a buffer (also in Python 2.3-2.5, BTW). You only have to declare the type of a buffer variable. http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements/buffer According to what I hear, at least the NumPy developers make use of this already. No idea how common it is in the PIL area, but it does work there, too. Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
