Re: [Pysdl-devel] Patch: Python file objects

[Mark B. <mb...@0x...>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Eric Jacobs wrote:
> I have a patch for PySDL 0.0.3 to allow any Python
> file-like object to be loaded or saved as an image.
> It also allows strings to be loaded as data. This
> could be useful for games and other programs that
> might not want to store all of their images in
> individual files.

I'll need to think about the real need of the introspection, but it seems like
it'd be good to not only support file object, but "file-like" objects, as well.
You mention MetaKit, for instance, which could alleviate hassles of back-end
management. 

Using strings as a source of data, though, seems less useful. Flexible,
perhaps, but it's not worth making the API nasty with an optional argument
indicating whether a string is a filename, or a source of data.

> And I hope someone's reading this list, because I
> didn't see any messages in the archives... ;)

PySDL is a fairly new project. The mailing list archives apparently work on a
monthly basis, so the contents of the last few weeks won't be archived for a
while.

Thanks for the contribution. I'll probably work it into the next release, and
alter the sound subsystem (which I'm currently working on) to use it as well.