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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>Although 2.7 has the new buffer interface and memoryview objects, these are widely not accepted in the built in modules.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>Examples are the structmodule, some of the socketmodule apis, structmodule, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>IMHO this is unfortunate. For example when doign network io, you would want code like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>Buffer = bytearray(10)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>Socket.recv_into(Buffer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>Header = struct.unpack(„i“, memoryview(Buffer)</span>[:4])[0]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In other words, you want to minimize coping the data around. Currently in 2.7 you have to cast the memoryview to str() which copies the data. In 3.0 you don’t.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is there any chance of getting changes like these in ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(swapping s# for s* in PyArg_ParseTuple in a few strategic places)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My current list of places would be:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_strucmodule.c<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>arraymodule.c<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>zlibmodule.c<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>marshal.c<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>audioop.c and imageop.c are probably less important.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>K<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>