Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Why does PyOS_Readline return *char, rather than Python string object?
For historical reasons and now for compatibility: we can't change the hook's signature without breaking obvious applications, obviously. If necessary, we could add a new hook that would take precedence over the old one if defined. Feel free to post a patch for that. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17620> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
