[Python-Dev] graphics maths types in python core? (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 01:10:37 CEST 2009
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Greg Ewing wrote:
Why is it that whenever the word "buffer" is mentioned, some people seem to think it has something to do with memoryview? There is no such thing as "a buffer". There is the buffer interface, and there are objects which support the buffer interface, of which memoryview is one among many.
Probably because memoryview is the Python API for the C-level buffer interface. While I can understand that point of view, I don't agree with it, which is why I consider it important to point out that memoryview's limitations aren't shared by the underlying API when the topic comes up.
/tangent from the vector math thread (hopefully)
Cheers, Nick.
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