[ctypes-users] Re: copying/slicing ctypes arrays, (c_ulong *n)()

[Florian S. <flo...@gm...>]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:50:24 +0100, Thomas Heller <th...@py...> 
wrote:

> I have thought about all this a little bit, and it seems that it would
> be very useful to accept Python objects which implement the buffer
> interface as function parameters (currently only ctype instances,
> strings and integers are allowed).
>
> Of course, sometimes you don't want the data to be copied just at the
> beginning, but in this case you should wrap the object into a buffer
> object (with the buildin buffer() type/function).  The buffer() call
> accepts optional parameters for offset and size, so address arithmetic
> would be done by the buffer object itself - nicer than to add more
> parameters to the memmove function and friends.
>
> How does that sound?

Sounds good.

I wonder what the python developers plan to do with buffer in the future, 
I read it's deprecated and should be redone.

Regards,
Florian Schulze