On 10/24/05, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > A concern I'd have with fixing this is that Unicode objects also > > support the buffer API. In any situation where either str or unicode > > is accepted I'd be reluctant to guess whether a buffer object was > > meant to be str-like or Unicode-like. I think this covers all the > > cases you mention here. > > This situation is a little better than that: the buffer > interface has a slot called getcharbuffer which is what > the string methods use in case they find that a string > argument is not of type str or unicode.
I stand corrected! > As first step, I'd suggest to implement the gatcharbuffer > slot. That will already go a long way. Phil, if anything still doesn't work after doing what Marc-Andre says, those would be good candidates for fixes! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
