New submission from Ori Avtalion <o...@avtalion.name>:
It would be useful to have a shared API for consuming bytes and bytearrays. At present, I need to write very similar code twice. Some existing codebases only support bytes (perhaps forgetting bytearrays exist). Adding support for bytearray would be trivial if there was a shared API. These are the functions/macros that can have "BytesOrByteArray" equivalents: * PyBytes_Check * PyBytes_CheckExact * PyBytes_Size * PyBytes_GET_SIZE * PyBytes_AsString * PyBytes_AS_STRING * PyBytes_AsStringAndSize Here are some example implementations for the macros: #define PyBytesOrByteArray_Check(ob) (PyBytes_Check(ob) || PyByteArray_Check(ob)) #define PyBytesOrByteArray_AS_STRING(ob) (PyBytes_Check(ob) ? PyBytes_AS_STRING(ob) : PyByteArray_AS_STRING(ob)) #define PyBytesOrByteArray_GET_SIZE(ob) #define PyByteArray_GET_SIZE(self) (assert(PyBytesOrByteArray_Check(self)), Py_SIZE(self)) ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 336218 nosy: salty-horse priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add unified C API for accessing bytes and bytearray type: enhancement versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36065> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
