[Python-Dev] buffer interface considered harmful

[Jim Fulton]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> >...
> > A while ago I asked for some documentation on the Buffer
> > interface.  I basically got silence.  At this point, I
> 
> I think the silence was caused by the simple fact that the documentation
> does not (yet) exist. That's all... nothing nefarious.

I didn't mean to suggest anything nefarious.  I do think that a change that
affects something as basic as the standard object type layout and that
generates this much discussion really should be documented before it
becomes part of the core.  I'd especially like to see some kind of document
that includes information like:

  - A problem statement that describes the problem the change is
    solving,

  - How does the solution solve the problem,

  - When and how should people writing new types support the new
    interfaces?

We're not talking about a new library module here.  There's been 
a change to the core object interface.

Jim

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