Josiah Carlson wrote:
> At least for the examples of buffers that I've seen, using the buffer
> interface for objects that support it is equivalent to automatically
> applying str() to them. This is, strictly speaking, an optimization.
>>> a = array.array("i", [1, 2, 3])
>>> str(a)
"array('i', [1, 2, 3])"
>>> str(buffer(a))
'\x01\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00'
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