On 09/02/2010 10:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
 Then it came to me then perhaps it would be too automatic. So I'm
currently floating between:
- add implicit buffer protocol support to BytesIO objects
- add explicit buffer protocol support through the call of a
   getbuffer() method, which would return a small intermediate object
   supporting the buffer protocol on behalf of the original BytesIO
   object

What do you think would be better?

getbuffer() sounds better. Accessing buffer contents is a nice feature, but one shouldn't be able to do it by accident.
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