I'd rather send and recieve PyArrays into my C modules
since I often end up with a foo(int count, type *data)
call anyway.  Sure, there's NumPy for this sort of
dirtywork, but this is so much more convienient.

This proposal is basically fine.  It will need docs and it can go into Py2.6.

Raising priority as a reminder to myself or anyone who wants to apply, 
test, and document.

I think this issue is largely superseded by PEP 3118 
<http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3118>, which is being backported to 
2.6 (see issue2393).  AFAICT, the only functionality not available from 
the new buffer protocol is the ability to create new array objects from 
C code, but this patch does not provide such functionality either.

Travis, can you weigh in on this?  I think it may be useful to expose 
newarrayobject() through some C API compatible with PEP 3118, but 
otherwise this proposal seems redundant.

I will look at the patch, but generally I'm not inclined to give the
array module more legs because I agree that the desired functionality
should be put into the memoryview object and the buffer protocol.

Is there still any interest in pursuing this?  Raymond?

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