Re: [Python-Dev] Understanding the buffer API

Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:

4. The consumer has NOT requested writable buffer, can readonly flag of provided buffer be false anyway?

Yes, per the new documentation. This is not explicitly mentioned in the PEP but was existing practice and greatly simplifies several things: http://docs.python.org/dev/c-api/buffer.html#PyBUF_WRITABLE Stefan Krah