On 8/23/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > Wasn't a past mailing list thread claiming the bytes type was supposed > > to be great for IO? How's that possible unless we add a lock to the > > bytesobject? > > Doesn't the new buffer protocol provide something for > getting a locked view of the data? If so, it seems like > bytes should implement that.
It *does* implement that! So there's the solution: these APIs should not insist on bytes but use the buffer API. It's quite a bit of work I suspect (especially since you can't use PyArg_ParseTuple with y# any more) but worth it. BTW PyUnicode should *not* support the buffer API. I'll add both of these to the task spreadsheet. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
