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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2008-08-19 22:09:34 (GMT)
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Issue #2394: implement more of the memoryview API.
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@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ What's new in Python 3.0b3?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #2394: implement more of the memoryview API, with the caveat that
+ only one-dimensional contiguous buffers are supported and exercised right
+ now. Slicing, slice assignment and comparison (equality and inequality)
+ have been added. Also, the tolist() method has been implemented, but only
+ for byte buffers. Endly, the API has been updated to return bytes objects
+ wherever it used to return bytearrays.
+
- Issue #3560: clean up the new C PyMemoryView API so that naming is
internally consistent; add macros PyMemoryView_GET_BASE() and
PyMemoryView_GET_BUFFER() to access useful properties of a memory views