STINNER Victor added the comment: I took me some time, but Antoine explained me the use case on IRC :-) The patch is useful is the bytearray is used as a FIFO: remove front, append tail. It can be seen as an implementation for BufferedReader. Consumer/producer is a common pattern, especially consuming one end (front) and produce at the other end (tail).
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