On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:17:04PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > 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.
this sounds good, i'll work on it today for bsddb and hashlib. -greg _______________________________________________ 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
