[Python-3000] Buffer objects and StringIO

[Neal Norwitz]

On 5/31/07, Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre at peadrop.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I finished yesterday the implementations of BytesIO and StringIO
> objects in C. They are both fully working. (The code is available in
> my cpy_merge branch in the svn tree.) There is only one thing that is
> bothering me with StringIO, it doesn't accept buffer objects. Should I
> care about this?

Yes, but buffer objects are likely to change in 3.0.  See PEP 3118
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3118/

It's not accepted because the PEP isn't complete yet AFAIK.

n