About hello-memoryview

This is an example usage of the new-style buffer API available in Python 2.6.

Requirements

• Linux
• Python 2.6+
• numpy
• argparse (required for Python versions 2.6, 3.0, and 3.1)

Usage

To run the demo using the slow python code:

$ hello-memoryview

To run the demo using the faster C extension:

$ hello-memoryview --fast

To advance the state by one step press 'n'. To advance the state by multiple steps press '<k>n' where <k> is some number, possibly with multiple digits. For example, typing '99n' will advance the state by 99 steps. To quit, press any key that is not 'n' and is not a digit.