Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Formally: no; it access a Python string/Python unicode object all > the time. > > Now, since all the shared objects it accesses are immutable, likely > no harm would be done releasing the GIL. I think SRE was originally > also intended to operate on array.array objects; this would have > caused bigger problems.
SRE can operate on anything that implements the buffer interface. </F>
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