Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> writes: > On 15 June 2014 14:57, Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote: >> On 06/14/2014 09:31 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> On 15 June 2014 10:41, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: >>>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014, at 15:39, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >>>>> It seems to me that a much cleaner solution would be to simply declare >>>>> _pyio's readinto to only work with bytearrays, and to explicitly raise a >>>>> (more helpful) TypeError if anything else is passed in. >>>> >>>> That seems reasonable. I don't think _pyio's behavior is terribly >>>> important compared to the C _io module. >>> >>> _pyio was written before the various memoryview fixes that were >>> implemented in Python 3.3 - it seems to me it would make more sense to >>> use memoryview to correctly handle arbitrary buffer exporters (we >>> implemented similar fixes for the base64 module in 3.4). >> >> Definitely. But is there a way to do that without writing C code? > > Yes, Python level reshaping and typecasting of memory views is one of > the key enhancements Stefan implemented for 3.3. [..]
Ah, nice. I'll use that. Thank you Stefan :-). Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com