5 Jan
2007
5 Jan
'07
7:37 p.m.
Neal Becker wrote:
I'm thinking that a buffer is just an interface to memory, and that the interpretation as an array of n-dimensions, for example, is best left to the application. I might want to at one time view the data as n-dimensional, but at another time as 1-dimensional, for example.
Sure, but you need a standard way to communicate that extra information between different parts of your code and also between different third party libraries. That is what this PEP intends to provide.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco