Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> Options 2) and 3) would ideally entail one backwards incompatible >> bugfix: In 2.7 and 3.2 assignment to a memoryview with format 'B' >> rejects integers but accepts byte objects, but according to the >> struct syntax mandated by the PEP it should be the other way round. > > Maybe a compromise could be made to accept both in the > backport? That would avoid breaking old code while allowing > code that does the right thing to work.
This could definitely be done. But backporting is beginning to look unlikely, since we currently have three +1 for "too complex to backport". I'm not strongly in favor of backporting myself. The main reason for me would be to prevent having additional 2->3 or 3->2 porting obstacles. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ 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
