Sounds like a PEP to me. Very breifly: > *** Changing the 'l' and 'L' typecodes to use LONG_LONG. Please follow the lead of the struct module, which now uses 'q' and 'Q' for 8-byte ints. > ... > *** I'd really like it if the array module gave a "hard commitment" to > the sizes of the elements instead of just sayings "at least n bytes". It cannot, unless you abandon the notion that it stores native C types. Even C99 refused to guarantee any "exactly n bytes" types, beyond the trivial sizeof(char)==1 (which is definitional in C: if you need to store a char in 128 bits, that's "one byte" to C). > ... > *** I really need complex types. And more than the functionality > provided by Numeric/Numarray, I need complex integer types. This will meet resistance, as it's a pile of code of no conceivable use to the vast majority of Python users. That is, "code bloat". Instead the array type should be subclassable, and extreme special-purpose hair like "complex integers" should be supplied by extension modules. > ... > *** The ability to construct an array object from an existing C > pointer. We get our memory in all kinds of ways (valloc for page > aligned DMA transfers, shmem etc...), and it would be nice not to copy > in and copy out in some cases. Exploit the buffer interface (but write a PEP so there's a single place to record all this stuff -- I'm not getting sucked into a massive one-shot thread about this <wink>). > ... > Well if someone authoritative tells me that all of the above is a great > idea, At least some of it is at least a good idea <wink>. > I'll start working on a patch and scratch my plans to create a > "not in house" xarray module. Please write a PEP as the first step: a design document will be invaluable before this is done. I suggest thinking harder about an extensible design than about piling all conceivable features into it at the start.
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