Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment: I seems to be a feature to get a "lock" on an exporter without the exporter filling in a buffer. It was there from the beginning:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release30-maint/Objects/bytearrayobject.c?r1=56849&r2=57181 Last use that I can see is here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/df3b2b5db900/Modules/posixmodule.c#l561 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14203> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com