[Python-Dev] PEP: Adding data-type objects to Python (original) (raw)

Travis E. Oliphant oliphant.travis at ieee.org
Sun Oct 29 08:46:39 CET 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

I'd say the answer to where we put it will be dependent on what happens to the idea of adding a NumArray style fixed dimension array type to the standard library. If that gets exposed through the array module as array.dimarray, then it would make sense to expose the associated data layout descriptors as array.datatype. Seem to me that arrays are a sub-concept of binary data, not the other way around. So maybe both arrays and data types should be in a module called 'binary' or some such.

Yes, very good point.

That's probably one reason I'm proposing the data-type first before the array interface in the extended buffer protocol.

-Travis

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