Paul Moore wrote: > Hi, > I'll admit right off that I haven't followed all of the extended > buffer protocol discussions - I have no real need for anything much > beyond the existing "here's a blob of memory" level of functionality. > > I have skimmed (briefly, I'll admit!) the pre-PEP, but I've found it > extremely difficult to find a simple example of the basic (in my view) > use case of an undifferentiated block of bytes. >
This is a great suggestion and it was on my to-do list. I've included some examples of this use-case in the new PEP. > > 1. (Producer) I have a block of memory in my C extension and I want to > expose it as a simple contiguous block of bytes to Python. This is now Ex. 2 in the PEP. > > 2. (Consumer) I want to get at a block of memory exposed as a buffer. > I am only interested in, and only support, viewing a buffer as a block > of contiguous bytes. I expect most if not all extensions to be able to > provide such a view. > This is now Ex. 3 Thanks for the suggestions. -Travis _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
