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		kkuduk on April 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascr... well, there are memoryviews, but they could have been designed better

travisoliphant on April 15, 2013 [–]

Memoryviews are the step-child of NumPy arrays. The buffer-protocol was the real intent and the memory view the forgotten "example" until a few brave and noble Python devs rescued it from obscurity. Memory-views are not that useful to one who will always have NumPy installed.

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