[Python-Dev] graphics maths types in python core?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Parts 2 and 3, being the memoryview API and support for the new protocol
> in the builtin types are the parts that are currently restricted to
> simple linear memory views.
> 
> That's largely because parts 2 and 3 are somewhat use case challenged:
> the key motivation behind PEP 3118 was so that libraries like NumPy, PIL
> and the like would have a common standard for data interchange.

If I understand correctly, one of the motivations behind memoryview() is to
replace buffer() as a way to get cheap slicing without memory copies (it's used
e.g. in the C IO library). I don't know whether the third-party types mentioned
above could also benefit from that.

Regards

Antoine.