Re: [pygame] Re: SDL-ctypes progress

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 2, 2006, at 1:36 AM, Richard Jones wrote:

> On Friday 02 June 2006 08:23, Rene Dudfield wrote:
> > Following pyopengls methods for using numeric/numpy for ->pixels is a
> > good plan.  For the future, in 2.5 there has been work on writable
> > buffers.  Also there is a SoC project which aims to get a simple
> > numeric like interface into python.
>
> Python 2.5 also has speedy new struct code which may come in useful.

Well, struct wouldn't be all that good for working with buffers full  
of pixels; it doesn't do anything lazily.. unpacking creates tuples  
full of stuff, rather than returning some kind of proxy object that  
creates numbers on demand like numeric/numpy/ctypes.

-bob