[Python-3000] PEP 368: Standard image protocol and class

[Robert Kern]

Lino Mastrodomenico wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have submitted a new PEP:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0368/
> 
> It starts from a Pete Shinners' suggestion and from the consideration
> that there are a lot of Python libraries that use image objects, but
> almost all of them have implemented their own image classes,
> incompatible with everyone else's (and often not very pythonic).

Could you build this on top of the new buffer protocol that we're working on?

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3118/

Enabling this kind of data sharing is precisely what the new buffer type is
intended for.

-- 
Robert Kern

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