[Python-Dev] Expose the array interface in Python 2.5? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 19 02:50:19 CET 2006


Things are getting a bit confusing, because it seems that there are two different things being discussed here:

(1) A C-level array interface that's a generalisation of the buffer interface.

(2) A new multi-dimensional array object type which happens to implement (1).

As I understand the proposals, the important thing for interoperability between different types is to have (1). Whereas (2) would be useful to have, it's not a prerequisite for (1).

Do I understand correctly?

Greg



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