[docs] [issue16518] add "buffer protocol" to glossary

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

I wouldn't use "bytes-like object". One can certainly argue that *memoryview* should be bytes-like as a matter of preference, but the buffer protocol specifies strongly (or even statically) typed multi-dimensional arrays.

Ach :-(

PEP-3118 Py_buffer structs are essentially how NumPy works internally.

Well, we should still write a Python documentation, not a NumPy documentation (on this tracker anyway). Outside of NumPy, there's little use for multi-dimensional objects. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16518> _______________________________________