RE: MemoryView missing from Python 2.4 and 2.6

["Wiederhake, Tim" <tim dot wiederhake at intel dot com>]

Hi,

thank you for your patience.
I revisited option (2) and found that I could actually do without big code refactoring. See attached patch how this could look like. "memoryview" offers some functions and data members that "buffer" does not have, like information about the stride size, the number of dimensions and explicit conversion functions to "bytes" and "list". Since we always return a one-dimensional array of bytes, this information is not too useful and is probably bearable to miss in Python 2. Besides these differences, the behavior is the same in regard to indexing and iterating over the object.

Jose, can you confirm that this patch un-breaks GDB linked with Python 2.6?

Regards,
Tim
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Attachment: 0001-Fix-break-on-Python-2.patch
Description: 0001-Fix-break-on-Python-2.patch