Re: [Numpy-discussion] python-numeric in FC4: good idea?

[Robert K. <rk...@uc...>]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:
> 
>> This is a Darn Good example of why we need the new array protocol.
> 
> I came across another one the other day when working on
> pygui. I wanted to use glReadPixels to read data into a
> buffer belonging to an NSBitmapImageRep, but PyOpenGL's
> glReadPixels can only read data into an existing memory
> block if it's a Numeric array, and PyObjC doesn't know
> anything about Numeric...

I've taken the liberty of adding these to a new Wiki page. Let's record
these "Oh I wish everyone used the array protocol" moments when we come
across them.

http://www.scipy.org/wikis/featurerequests/ArrayInterfaceUseCases/

This will probably migrate to the Trac instance for scipy whenever that
comes about.

-- 
Robert Kern
rk...@uc...

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