On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Eli Stevens (Gmail) <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > Actually, thinking about this more, if the PEP gets updated with a > backwards-compatible change, numpy could support the newer version, > even on older versions of Python that don't officially, right? > > How quickly could something like the 'e' type be added to the PEP? You've got to get the attention and buy-in from the right people for this to happen. I found this with a brief search: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#reporting-pep-bugs-or-submitting-pep-updates -Mark
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