[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: Saving HUGE arrays

[Konrad Hinsen]

> I presume PyBuffer_GetInfo() should fail on non-contiguous arrays ?

That would make it useless for many applications, since non-contiguous
arrays can occur anywhere.

> PyBuffer_GetInfo() must check if the buffer is available read-only
> (immutable objects) or read/write (mutable, e.g. contiguous arrays).
> 
> We could add it a mode argument, ala fopen() ('r', 'w').

How about a stream-like protocol, i.e. implementing read() and write()?
That could be done for non-contiguous arrays, and still be efficient.

Konrad.
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