On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:11:29 -0500 > "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: >> > >> > >>> 'abc'.transform('hex') >> > TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface >> > >>> b'abc'.transform('rot13') >> > TypeError: expected an object with the buffer interface >> >> I find these 'buffer interface' error messages to be the most confusing >> error message I get out of Python3 no matter what context they show up >> in. I have no idea what they are telling me. That issue is more >> general than transform/untransform, but perhaps it could be fixed >> for transform/untransform in particular. > > I agree. "buffer interface" is a technicality that the Python user > doesn't do about (unless (s)he also writes C extensions). How about > "expected a bytes-compatible object"?
Why not "binary data interface"? That's what they're actually looking for. It seems odd for 'rot13' to be throwing that error though. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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