[Python-3000] Revised PEP for buffer protocol

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> I think the point is for there to be something in the standard library 
> or Python core that makes it easy for a consumer to *copy* the data to a 
> contiguous memory segment in the event the consumer can't directly 
> handle non-contiguous data

It would be even more useful if the destination could
be non-contiguous as well, but with a different stride.
Then you could go from contiguous to non-contiguous,
non-contiguous to contiguous, or repack between two
different non-contiguous formats.

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Greg