[Python-Dev] idea for data-type (data-format) PEP
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Nov 3 03:25:15 CET 2006
Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> My main concern was that in ctypes the size of an array is a part of
> the datatype object and this seems to be redundant if used for the
> buffer protocol. Buffer protocol already reports the size of the
> buffer as a return value of bf_get*buffer methods.
I think what would happen if you were interoperating with
ctypes is that you would get a datatype describing one
element of the array, together with the shape information,
and construct a ctypes array type from that. And going
the other way, from a ctypes array type you would extract
an element datatype and a shape.
--
Greg
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