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Subject: buffers and memoryviews
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I didn't know a whole lot (read: nothing) about buffers and memoryviews
before digging into the C side of Python. Once I found them, ran into some
of the 2.7 ugliness of having /both/ buffers and memoryviews available and
found the tremendous usefulness in them, I decided to write a blog post.
In this post, I hope to give the reader a brief overview of what each is,
detail some of the ugliness in 2.7 and provide useful information for
those wanting to incorporate them into their work.

http://demianbrecht.github.com/posts/2013/02/10/buffer-and-memoryview/


Demian Brecht
http://demianbrecht.github.com