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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi python dev.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have two languishing defects regarding 2.7 and how buffer support isn’t complete there.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue10211">http://bugs.python.org/issue10211</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue10212">http://bugs.python.org/issue10212</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In both cases, the new style buffer support is incomplete, and the patches close usability holes having to do with memoryview objects.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was suggested to me that I put it to python-dev to decide if we should consider this a bug to be fixed or not, and hopefully get a consensus before 2.7.4 freeze.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been running a local patch of 2.7 with those fixes for two years now.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kristj<span lang="IS">án<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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