PEP 3118 [1] allows exposing multi-dimensional data that is organized as array of pointers.  It appears, however that NumPy cannot consume such memory views. 

Looking at _array_from_buffer_3118() function [2], I don't see any attempt to process suboffsets.   The documentation [3] is also silent on this issue.

What is the status of indirect memory views/buffers support in NumPy?


[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3118/
[2] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/4050ac73af79ae8cc513648ff02e9a22041501c4/numpy/core/src/multiarray/ctors.c#L1253
[3] http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.interface.html