[Python-Dev] Adding bytes.frombuffer() constructor to PEP 467 (was: [Python-ideas] Adding bytes.frombuffer() constructor (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 03:25:50 EDT 2016

On 25 October 2016 at 02:53, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

IS this na either-or? IF someone is proposing a nice lib for "low level data buffer manipulation", then yes, putting frombuffer() in there would be a fine idea.

But if there is no such proposal on the table, then I think adding a frombuffer method to the bytes object is a small improvement that we can do now.

The suggestion came from folks working on asyncio performance improvements, and we already got the entire selectors abstraction from the original asyncio implementation work, as well as Yury's new libuv-based uvloop asyncio event loop implementation.

Given that "make OpenStack/SDN/NFV run faster" is a key point of interest for folks like Intel and Red Hat, I'm absolutely suggesting that they put some paid time and energy into a lower level buffer manipulation library between now and the Python 3.7 feature freeze in 12+ months, as I think that will have longer term pay-offs well beyond the scope of the original use cases :)

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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