Stefan Krah added the comment: As I understand it, you prefer memoryviews where the format is purely informational, whereas we now have typed memoryviews.
Typed memoryviews are certainly useful, in fact they are present in Cython, see here for examples: http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/memoryviews.html I can see only one obvious benefit of ignoring the format: All possible formats are accepted. What I don't understand is why this ... m[0] = b'\x00\x00\x00\x01' ... should be preferable to: m[0] = 1 If you think that typed memoryviews are a mistake, I suggest raising the issue on python-dev as soon as possible (3.3 is due soon). All memoryview operations are now based on values instead of bit patterns, see for example #15573. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15944> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
