<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hello </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;min-height:19px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I have some implementation that currently uses python 2.6.4, which I m trying to upgrade to Python 2.7.6. After upgrade, I get the following error:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;min-height:19px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica;background-color:rgb(235,235,236)"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">expected string or Unicode object, memoryview found"</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;min-height:19px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">On checking further, I could find that memory view object has been back ported to python 2.7 using this patch:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;min-height:19px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue2396">https://bugs.python.org/issue2396</a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;font-family:arial;min-height:15px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I would like to know if it is safe to revert this patch alone from Python 2.7.6, or do we know if there are any other dependencies? </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;min-height:19px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thanks</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Regards</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:times"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Sesha</span></p></div>