"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] || I'd love a better term. It seems we could use several new names: | | 1. a new name for what PEP 3137 calls buffer
The definining difference is mutability or editability, so 'mubytes' or 'ebytes'. | 2. a new name for the union of bytes and buffer (*) Bytable (ABC) = able to be split into bytes. | 3. a new name for all types supporting the "buffer API" MemBuf, MemArray, MemRay _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com