On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Jack Jansen wrote:
Why not pass the index to the As*Buffer routines as well and make getsegcount available too?
Simply because multiple segments hasn't been seen. All objects supporting the buffer interface have a single segment.
Hmm. And I went out of my way to include this stupid multi-buffer stuff because the NumPy folks said they couldn't live without it (and one of the reasons for the buffer stuff was to allow NumPy arrays, which may be discontiguous, to be written efficiently).
Can someone confirm that the Numeric stuff indeed doesn't use this?
/usr/LLNLDistribution/Numerical/Include$ grep buffer *.h /usr/LLNLDistribution/Numerical/Include$ Yes. =) See the other thread on low-overhead pickling. But again, *if* multiarrays supported the buffer interface, they'd have to use the multi-segment feature (repeating myself). --david