On 7 Oct 2014 00:31, "Christian Tismer" <tis...@stackless.com> wrote:

>
> 2)
> And about this glossary entry:
>
> "An object that supports the Buffer Protocol"
> - can I take that for granted, as a real definition, meaning
>
> """an object is bytes-like iff it supports the buffer protocol"""?

Yes, although we should likely update it to say the requirement is for
"memoryview(obj)" to work, with the C level buffer protocol being the only
current way to support that on CPython.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> cheers - Chris
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