[Python-3000] Revised PEP for buffer protocol (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 20 23:56:52 CET 2007


Nick Coghlan wrote:

I think the point is for there to be something in the standard library or Python core that makes it easy for a consumer to copy the data to a contiguous memory segment in the event the consumer can't directly handle non-contiguous data

It would be even more useful if the destination could be non-contiguous as well, but with a different stride. Then you could go from contiguous to non-contiguous, non-contiguous to contiguous, or repack between two different non-contiguous formats.

-- Greg



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