Greg Ewing wrote: > <rant subject="terminology"> > Why is it that whenever the word "buffer" is mentioned, > some people seem to think it has something to do with > memoryview? There is no such thing as "a buffer". There > is the buffer interface, and there are objects which > support the buffer interface, of which memoryview is > one among many. > </rant>
Probably because memoryview *is* the Python API for the C-level buffer interface. While I can understand that point of view, I don't agree with it, which is why I consider it important to point out that memoryview's limitations aren't shared by the underlying API when the topic comes up. /tangent from the vector math thread (hopefully) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
