[Python-Dev] PEP 298

[Jack Jansen]

On Friday, Dec 13, 2002, at 16:48 Europe/Amsterdam, Guido van Rossum 
wrote:

>> The PyArg_Parse replacement I would like to do (for which I have had,
>> unfortunately, absolutely no support up to now, and which I don't feel
>> up to designing all by myself) could fix this with PEP298: it would 
>> use
>> the locked buffer interface if available on the object, and release 
>> the
>> locked buffer after your method returns.
>
> I can't give you much more than moral support. :-(
>
> It sounds like it would be a Big Change though; are you sure you're up
> to this for Python 2.3?

No, I don't think it'll happen before that time, there's oodles of 
MacOSX stuff
I still want to do, and that'll keep me off the street for the time 
being.

But if we have the process underway before 2.3 I hope I may be able to 
convince
you that we should keep PyArg_Parse semantics as they are.
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma 
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