I think you're getting caught in OS/platform semantics rather than a python solution. I already have access to the block on memory...I simply need information about existing python facilities which will allow me to expose the block to python as a native type...from which I can read byte for byte and optionally write to. As I originally said, I have a pointer and the block's length. I have access to it already. I simply need to expose it to python. What facilities already exist to allow this which do not cause malloc/memcpy on said block?
Thus far, it looks like a hack on mmap is my best bet...I was hoping that the array module would have something I could use too; which would prevent me from havining to write my own data type module. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
