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Author	pitrou
Recipients	brett.cannon, gvanrossum, pitrou
Date	2008-08-07.21:03:40
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Le mercredi 06 août 2008 à 20:12 +0000, Guido van Rossum a écrit : > +1. buffer() stinks. memoryview() rules. They don't hvae the same use > cases. > > Is there truly nobody else who understands PEP 3118 well enough? PEP 3118 is not very detailed (for example the exact semantics of slicing are not specified: should it return a copy? I suppose not). Also, most advanced uses of the buffer API seem related to numpy and similar packages, which I've never used.

Le mercredi 06 août 2008 à 20:12 +0000, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> +1.  buffer() stinks.  memoryview() rules.  They don't hvae the same use
> cases.
> 
> Is there truly nobody else who understands PEP 3118 well enough?

PEP 3118 is not very detailed (for example the exact semantics of
slicing are not specified: should it return a copy? I suppose not).
Also, most advanced uses of the buffer API seem related to numpy and
similar packages, which I've never used.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-08-07 21:03:41	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, brett.cannon
2008-08-07 21:03:40	pitrou	link	issue3506 messages
2008-08-07 21:03:40	pitrou	create