Isaac Morland wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2008, Christian Heimes wrote:
>
>> The buffer interface was designed for the slice-as-copy use case:
>>
>>>>> a = "abcdefg"
>>>>> b = buffer(a, 2, 3)
>>>>> b
>> <read-only buffer for 0x839c2e0, size 3, offset 2 at 0x8391c40>
>>>>> str(b)
>> 'cde'
> [....]
>
> This answers my musing about shared slices. But it points me at another
> question: why is buffer() listed in "Non-essential Built-in Functions"?
> While it is obviously not essential like str() or list(), it isn't
> deprecated like apply().
Even worse, it's gone in Py3:
Python 3.0a5 (r30a5:62856, May 9 2008, 11:26:14)
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> buffer
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'buffer' is not defined
Stefan
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