Re: [pygame] BufferProxy (was Flood Filling Images)

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> René Dudfield wrote:
>
>
> > [G]etting a buffer proxy helps with surface locking semantics.
> > When you get a BufferProxy the surface is locked (which you need to do
> > when you are modifying Surface->pixels - when the BufferProxy is
> > destroyed, the surface lock is released.
>
> That's a good reason. Although the new buffer protocol
> has locking facilities built in, so it wouldn't strictly
> be needed then.
The new buffer protocol is for Python 3.0. I believe it breaks things so 
will ever be available for the 2.x series.

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Lenard Lindstrom
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