[issue5391] mmap: read_byte/write_byte and object type

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

Le Tuesday 17 March 2009 14:39:59 Hirokazu Yamamoto, vous avez écrit :
> Well, there is no conclusion which of your choices (a or b) is preferred.

Guido just wrote in other mail thread (py3k: accept unicode for 'c' and byte 
for 'C' in getarg?):

   "Yeah, mmap should be defined exclusively in terms of bytes."

> I opened similar issue for msvcrt in issue5410.

Cool, thanks.

> >Can you commit it to py3k than then to the 3.0 branch?
>
> If the patch is acceptable, yes. This patch will change behavior of
> functions, I don't think I can commit this without review.

Sure, we need a review of the patch. Should the patch be ported to 3.0?

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