On Sat, Nov 03, 2007, Brett Cannon wrote: > On 11/3/07, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No, Python has no means to check for the buffer interface yet. You could >> do isinstance(ob, (bytes, buffer)) but it wouldn't catch every object. >> We could create a PyObject_CheckWriteBuffer() API function and expose >> PyObject_CheckReadBuffer() and PyObject_CheckWriteBuffer() expose them. >> Or we could abuse isinstance(ob, memoryview). Or an ABC? > > An ABC would be best. I know there was a discussion about what the > best name would be for such an ABC but I don't remember the conclusion > reached.
Guido said ByteSequence for the bytes, so MutableByteSequence? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Typing is cheap. Thinking is expensive." --Roy Smith _______________________________________________ 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
