[Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 27 01:09:41 CEST 2007

Pete Shinners wrote:

Will your image objects be transferrable to PIL, Pygame, PyOpengl, Numpy, Pythonmagick, Pycairo, wxPython, etc? It would be best if this could avoid the "fromstring/tostring" mojo that always requires and extra copy of the data for each transfer.

This would be an excellent test case for the enhanced buffer protocol that's currently being worked on.

I wouldn't worry about this too much initially, though. Just get some kind of library-independent image/sound object working, and a buffer interface can be added later once the details are worked out.

-- Greg

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