[Python-3000] Google Sprint Ideas (original) (raw)

Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Mon Aug 21 13:16:03 CEST 2006


Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

The new API does not seem to provide for a way to read data directly into an existing object without creating an intermediate bytes object.

This is among the several things that Itamar Shtull-Trauring mentioned during his PyCon 2005 talk on 'Fast Networking with Python':

http://ln-s.net/D+u

While not affecting the new I/O stack design directly, addressing some of the other ways Itamar lists for improving Python's network efficiency (deep support for buffers, non-copying split(), Array.Array extensions, etc) are things we should probably discuss here.

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