Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > However, requiring an explicit two-step process for any other casting > (i.e. take a 1-D view, then a shaped view of that flat 1-D view) also > sounds reasonable. > > So I agree with Victor that 1-D bytes -> any shape/format and any > shape/format -> 1-D bytes should be allowed, but I think we should > hold off on allowing arbitrary transformations in a single step.
Converting to 1-D bytes is my main motivation for this feature request, so I'm fine with such a limitation. The point is to be able to do in Python what we can do in C, take an arbitrary buffer and handle it as pure bytes (for I/O or cryptography purposes, for example). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5231> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
