[Python-3000] Beta 3 planned for this Wednesday

[Nick Coghlan]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
>>> 2394    [Py3k] Finish the memoryview object implementation
>>> - - High priority
>>> - - This one is serious enough to hold up the release.  I really do not
> think we
>>>  should be finishing this implementation in the rc phase.
>> Can someone review Antoine's patch at http://codereview.appspot.com/3004 ?
>> It's above my head.
> 
> Benjamin reviewed it and after a few fixes, it went in in r65886.
> The implementation is finished for contiguous one-dimensional byte buffers. For
> other types of buffers some things will be either not implemented, or perhaps
> defective (since there isn't anything to test with).

We'll probably need some help from the NumPy folks for that - once beta
3 is out, hopefully they can take it for a spin and let us know if they
find any unexpected problems when attempting to use memoryview with
multi-dimensional arrays.

At some stage, we should probably put a simple type in the C API testing
module that we can use to test some of the extra indexing and buffer
interface features that aren't exercised within the standard library.

Cheers,
Nick.

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