Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Pointer functions copying memory.

[Thomas W. <th...@xs...>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:39:26PM -0500, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:

> The biggest problem I see is that the buffer API is loosely considered 
> deprecated.

I don't believe this is the case. Buffer *objects* (which the 'buffer'
builtin function / constructor returns) are somewhat-slilently deprecated,
but I don't believe the actual buffer API is. I haven't been paying
attention to python-dev lately, but all discussions I recall were about
buffer objects, not the API, and I have seen no-one complain about the API
itself (at least not all negatively :) For instance this posting by Guido:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-October/009974.html

And this more recent discussion:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-June/026018.html

From the PEP (Python Enhancement Proposals) list, I see a proposal to
more-or-less replace buffer objects by a 'bytes' object, and to extend the
buffer API with 'locking' (actually a different API that gives more control
to the acted-upon object.) No buffer API deprecation, silently or not.

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Thomas Wouters <th...@xs...>

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