Neal Becker wrote: > I'm thinking that a buffer is just an interface to memory, and that the > interpretation as an array of n-dimensions, for example, is best left to > the application. I might want to at one time view the data as > n-dimensional, but at another time as 1-dimensional, for example.
Sure, but you need a standard way to communicate that extra information between different parts of your code and also between different third party libraries. That is what this PEP intends to provide. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion