Message 176251 - Python tracker

Message176251

Author	skrah
Recipients	chris.jerdonek, docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, pitrou, skrah, terry.reedy
Date	2012-11-23.20:49:25
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Message-id	<1353703765.27.0.369159029402.issue16518@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I wouldn't use "bytes-like object". One can certainly argue that memoryview should be bytes-like as a matter of preference, but the buffer protocol specifies strongly (or even statically) typed multi-dimensional arrays. PEP-3118 Py_buffer structs are essentially how NumPy works internally.

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I wouldn't use "bytes-like object". One can certainly argue that *memoryview*
should be bytes-like as a matter of preference, but the buffer protocol
specifies strongly (or even statically) typed multi-dimensional arrays.

PEP-3118 Py_buffer structs are essentially how NumPy works internally.

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