[Python-3000] PEP Draft: Enhancing the buffer protcol
Travis E. Oliphant
oliphant.travis at ieee.org
Wed Feb 28 06:00:19 CET 2007
Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
>
> The memory management is the only issue.
In fact, the PEP still has the issue of who manages the memory for the
format-description string when it is returned.
The easiest thing to do is to return a Python String and let reference
counting handle the memory management.
What if we were also to return from the shape call a Python C-Object
that loosely wrapped the shape and strides c-arrays. Then, it would
free the memory on deallocation.
A C-API call that created such a C-Object from two arrays of integers
could be provided to make it easy.
-Travis
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