add PyUntypedBuffer
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add PyUntypedBuffer
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This is a proposal to make a first step towards resolving #5245
The idea is to add
PyUntypedBuffer, which is a sibling toPyBuffer<T>which does not care about the actual element type it holds inside. I got the idea of the name fromPyUntypedArrayinrust-numpy.I can imagine that this is potentially applicable in a number of cases where the user wants to attempt to get a buffer export from an object but doesn't necessarily know what element type the object will export.
PyUntypedBuffer::get()can be used to get the export,.format()can then be inspected to deduce what concrete elementTto cast the buffer to.I think while we're here I moved a lot of the implementations of methods from
PyBuffer<T>toPyUntypedBuffer, which may slightly reduce generic code bloat.