On 1/31/07, Travis Oliphant
To me this is so obvious that I don't understand the resistance in the Python community to the concept.
Indeed Travis, I was not reading this for a some time ago. Can you point me your last proposal? I remember reading about extending the builting buffer interface slots. Just an idea, as previous step to convince Py-Dev people: perhaps it is possible to develop an C extension, independent of numpy, implementing all what you proposed about dtype objects and defining a good C-API and Py-API to deal with all this, and next perhaps market it to people like gtk-python developers... In any case, you are contributing to a community standard which can be used once ready and next adopted by core python, like happened with ctype... What do you think? -- Lisandro Dalcín --------------- Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594