Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:
Python isn't a low-level language, and there isn't *in general* a particular intention "to give a bound to memory usage". When using "buffer" in a general sense, rather than a buffer object (which is more akin to a byte-array), it's usually understood to mean a Python list (used as an array) and the capacity refers to the number of elements. You may struggle to see a use case for specifying a buffer capacity as a number of elements rather than a byte size, but that doesn't mean that such use cases don't exist. Are you perhaps using MicroPython in a constrained-memory environment? In the 17 years that this code has been in Python, it's the first time AFAIK that anyone has raised the term "capacity" as potentially confusing, so I don't think such confusion is common. However, I'll be happy to update the documentation to clarify that "capacity" means "number of records buffered". ---------- assignee: -> vinay.sajip components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) stage: -> needs patch type: behavior -> _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32934> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
