[Python-3000] PEP Draft: Enhancing the buffer protcol

[Josiah Carlson]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I haven't been following that as closely as perhaps I should have. I'd
> be glad to drop this and go back to a string
> representation/implementation that's essentially the 2.x unicode type,
> with a compile-time configuration choice between 16 or 32 bits wide
> characters only.

Sounds good to me.

If the extended buffer interface gets accepted, it may make sense to
remove the string encoding "defenc" attribute on unicode objects which
is "used for implementing the buffer protocol", as it would no longer be
necessary for the buffer interface, or it could be kept around for
'print(unicodeobject)' calls.


 - Josiah