Paul Moore wrote:
> I think this needs clarifying - if your interpretation is correct, the
> documentation needs an overhaul (and in the short term, the behaviour
> needs explicitly stating in the PEP).
I haven't checked the code to make sure, but I suspect that where the
documentation says "string" it actually means anything implementing the
buffer API at the C level, which will then be interpreted as a block of
memory. That job is being taken over by bytes/buffer objects in 3.0.
Cheers,
Nick.
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