Re: [Numpy-discussion] Need more comments from scientific community on python-dev

[Bill B. <wb...@gm...>]

One thing I see with PIL and Matplotlib and PyOpenGL is that they're having
to add specific support for Numpy and numeric and numarray and PIL and
ctypes etc.
I'm also in the camp that doesn't really understand this stuff well enough
to really argue in favor of it, but would the proposed extensions make it
possible for all these different packages to just have to support "buffer
protocol" and magically be able to work with numpy or numeric without having
to introduce explicit dependencies and support code for all those other
packages?  If I've got the facts straight then I'd be happy to go and say
that on comp.lang.python.

--bb

On 10/31/06, Travis Oliphant <oli...@ie...> wrote:
>
>
> I'm recruiting more comments on python-dev regarding my two proposals
> for improving Python's native ability to share ndarray-like information.
>
> There is a dearth of scientific-computing and number-crunching-aware
> people on python-dev.  The result is that I sound like a lone voice
> arguing for something that nobody cares about.  When, I don't think that
> is true.  Please, please.  If you want Python to grow support for the
> array interface (or something like it), then please speak up on
> python-dev.
>
> Even something as simple as I really see the need for a way to exchange
> data-format information between two objects sharing the buffer protocol
> can be helpful.
>
> You can post through the gmane newsgroup interface:
>
> gmane.comp.python.devel
>
> Find any of the posts on the PEP's I've introduced.  Thanks for your help.
>
> -Travis
>
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