RE: [Python-Dev] Deprecate the buffer object?

That's a useful thing to be able to do and the buffer object does it in a safe way. I guess that's part of the reason why the buffer object has managed to survive as long as it has.

At least the builtin buffer function should go away. Even if someone had a use for it, it would not make-up for all the time lost by all the other people trying to figure what it was good for. Raymond Hettinger