extending python with array functions

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:28:33 -0200, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch  
<bj_666 at gmx.net> escribi�:

> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:56:02 -0200, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>
>> - the array module http://docs.python.org/lib/module-array.html provides
>> homogeneuos arrays that may be more efficient for your application.  
>> arrays
>> don't have a special API, you have to import the module and use its
>> functions the same as one would do in pure Python.
>
> There's one special thing about it: the `buffer_info()` method returns a
> tuple with the memory address and length (in items) of the current
> underlying buffer. Pretty useless information in Python but handy in
> extensions that can directly access the "raw" memory.

Good to know! I didn't notice it the (only) time I had to use arrays from  
C code.

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Gabriel Genellina