[Numpy-discussion] Buffer PEP in NumPy SVN

[Torgil Svensson]

Impressive work and an very intresting approach.

I have yet to figure out pros/cons or the variety of options this will
give when writing applications/modules. Big plus for giving ctypes a
way out of their crappy struct definitions.


A few quick questions:

Is the concept here that items always are contiguous in memory (=why
the strides cant be defined in the format-spec) ?
What will PyObject_SizeFromFormat(''(5,5)5t") return ?
What are the total memory size of format:'5t'
shape:ndim=2,shape=(5,5),strides=NULL ?
Huw would the "getbufferproc" function signature look inside the
"X{}"-format spec ?

//Torgil


On 2/28/07, Travis Oliphant <oliphant at ee.byu.edu> wrote:
>
> I just wanted to point people to the online version of the PEP.  I'm
> still looking for comments and suggestions.   The current version is here:
>
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/browser/trunk/numpy/doc/pep_buffer.txt
>
> -Travis
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