On Monday 24 October 2005 7:39 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: > 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!
I have implemented getcharbuffer - I was highlighting those methods where the getcharbuffer implementation was ignored. I'll put a patch together. Phil _______________________________________________ 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
