[Python-Dev] Extended Buffer Interface/Protocol (original) (raw)

Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 03:13:57 CET 2007

Greg Ewing:

So an array-of-pointers interface wouldn't be a direct substitute for the existing multi-segment buffer interface.

Providing an array of (pointer,length) wouldn't be too much extra work for a split vector implementation.

Guido van Rossum:

But there's always a call to remove the gap (or move it to the end).

Yes, although its something you try to avoid.

I'm not saying that this is an important use-case since no one seems to have produced a split vector implementation that provides the buffer protocol. Numeric-style array handling is much more common so deserves priority.

Neil

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