[Python-Dev] Allocation of shape and strides fields in Py_buffer

[Travis Oliphant]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Maintaining a PyDict instance to map from view pointers to shapes
>> and strides info doesn't strike me as a "complex scheme" though.
> 
> I don't see why a given buffer provider should ever need
> more than one set of shape/strides arrays at a time. It
> can allocate them on creation, reallocate them as needed
> if the shape of its internal data changes, and deallocate
> them when it goes away.
> 

I agree.  NumPy has a single shape/strides array.  The intent was to 
share this through the buffer interface.


> If you are creating view objects that present slices or
> some other alternative perspective, then the view object
> itself is a buffer provider and should maintain shape/stride
> arrays for its particular view of the underlying object.

Yes, that is correct.

-Travis