On Nov 2, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > > I think what would happen if you were interoperating with > ctypes is that you would get a datatype describing one > element of the array, together with the shape information, > and construct a ctypes array type from that. And going > the other way, from a ctypes array type you would extract > an element datatype and a shape.
Correct, assuming Travis' approach is accepted. However I understood that Martin was suggesting that ctypes types should be used to describe the structure of the buffer. Thus a buffer containing 10 integers would report its datatype as c_int*10. I was probably mistaken and Martin was suggesting the same as you. In this case extended buffer protocol would still use a different model from ctype and "don't reinvent the wheel" argument goes away. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
