On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <dagss@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
David Cournapeau wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
One thing somebody *could* work on rather independently for some hours is proper PEP 3118 support, as that is available in Python 2.6+ as well and could be conditionally used on those systems.
Yes, this could be done independently. I am not familiar with PEP 3118; from the python-dev ML, it looks like the current buffer API has some serious shortcomings, I don't whether this implies to numpy or not. Do you have more on this ?
Not sure what you refer to ...
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-April/088211.html Thank you for those information. I don't understand what is meant by "not implemented for multi-dimensional array", and the consequences for numpy. Does it mean that PEP 3118 is not fully implemented ? Is the status of the buffer interface the same for python 2.6 and python 3 ?
In addition it would be natural to act as a client, so that calling "np.array(obj)" (and/or np.view?) would acquire the data through PEP 3118.
Yes, it would help making sure we implement the interface correctly for once :) I am almost done having a numpy.distutils which can bootstrap itself to the point of converting the rest of the python code to py3k. With the buffer interface, this should enable moving forward in a piecewise manner. thank you, David