Change Board_ToHash() / Board_FromHash() exchange format

Bonifatius94 / ChessLib.Py

C-lib Python3 extension for efficient chess draw-gen

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Change Board_ToHash() / Board_FromHash() exchange format #19

Closed Bonifatius94 closed 3 years ago

Bonifatius94 commented 3 years ago

Issue:

current exchange format of Board_ToHash() / Board_FromHash() is a numpy array
numpy array needs to be converted to bytes before it can be written to a file etc.

Suggested Solution:

modify the exchange format from numpy array to Python type 'bytes' or 'bytearray' for better compatibility
therefore use the byte streaming / buffering API of CPython (https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/buffer.html)
test the new exchange format with unit tests

Bonifatius94 commented 3 years ago

For AI applications it could be more useful to have the board hash as numpy bytes array for feeding it to a neuronal network. Therefore the issue is not relevant at the moment.