[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 8 02:57:35 CEST 2007
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Currently the array module can be used for
> this but I would like to get rid of it in favor of bytes and Travis
> Oliphant's new buffer API
I thought the plan was to *enhance* the array module
so that it provides multi-dimensional arrays that
support the new buffer protocol.
If the plan is instead to axe it completely, then
I'm disappointed. Bytes is only a replacement for
array.array('B'), not any of the other types.
--
Greg
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