On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:22:54 +0200 Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: > > So, memoryview does exactly the opposite of what is specified. It should > reject the bytes object but accept the integer.
Well, memoryview is quite dumb right now. It ignores the format and just considers its underlying memory a bytes sequence. > I would like to fix this in the features/pep-3118 repository as follows: > > - memoryview should respect the format specifiers. > > - bytearray and friends should set the format specifier to "c" > in their getbuffer() methods. > > - Introduce a new function PyMemoryView_FromBytes() that can be used > instead of PyMemoryView_FromBuffer(). PyMemoryView_FromBuffer() > is usually used in conjunction with PyBuffer_FillInfo(), which > sets the format specifier to "B". What would PyMemoryView_FromBytes() do? The name suggests it takes a bytes object, but you can already use PyMemoryView_FromObject() for that. (I personnaly think the general bytes-as-sequence-of-ints behaviour is a mistake, so I wouldn't care much about an additional C API to enforce that behaviour :-)) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
