[Python-3000] bytes C API in 2.6 for easy transition to 3.0?

[Guido van Rossum]

On 9/4/07, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/4/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> > According to PEP 358, "bytes" will be in both 2.6 and 3.0.  It would
> > be nice if the C API for "bytes" existed in the trunk, so that it
> > could be used for new code that will port more easily to 3.0 .
>
> I assume this includes the new buffer api since we really seem to want C API
> users to use that rather than bytes objects directly?

Well, in a pinch the old buffer API would work (the 3.0 bytes object
used that until recently :-) but Travis told me he is planning to
backport PEP 3118 to 2.6, so eventually that will happen, yes.

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