David Ascher wrote:
>
> Why does buffer(array('c', 'test')) return a read-only buffer?
Simply because the buffer() builtin always creates a read-only object,
rather than selecting read/write when possible.
Shouldn't be hard to alter the semantics of buffer() to do so. Maybe do
this at the same time as updating it to create read/write buffers out of
the blue.
Cheers,
-g
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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/