On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Eli Stevens (Gmail) <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Mark Wiebe <[email protected]> wrote: > > That said, I think starting a discussion with the Python core developers > > about the float16 type is worthwhile. There might be interest in > supporting > > the float16 type in the struct interface, something that would be > required > > as part of amending PEP 3118. > > That's something that wouldn't see production until Python 3.3, right? > I'm imagining that the buffer spec in use wouldn't change during the > 2.7.x series, unless it's unusually accepting of changes. That's true, but explaining the hoops being jumped through to support a new data type across multiple Python plugins could help evolve the spec if necessary, and they may have some good suggestions. -Mark
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