[Python-Dev] PEP: Extending the buffer protocol to share arrayinformation. (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Nov 1 05:01:27 CET 2006

"Travis Oliphant" <oliphant.travis at ieee.org> wrote in message news:ei8ors$7m4$1 at sea.gmane.org...

Examples of Need [snip] < I could have also included examples from PyGame, OpenGL, etc. I thought people were more aware of this argument as we've made it several times over the years. It's just taken this long to get to a point to start asking for something to get into Python.

The problem of data format definition and sharing of data between applications has been a bugaboo of computer science for decades. But some have butted their heads against it more than others.

Something which made a noticeable dent in the problem, by making sharing 'just work' more easily, would, to me, be a read plus for python.

tjr

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