[Python-Dev] Silent Deprecation Candidate -- buffer()
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Mon, 01 Jul 2002 10:21:50 +0200
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> raymond wrote:
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>>As far as I can tell, buffer() is one of the least used or known about
>>Python tools. What do you guys think about this as a candidate for silent
>>deprecation (moving out of the primary documentation)?
>
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> +1, in theory.
>
> does anyone have any real-life use cases? I've never been
> able to use it for anything, and cannot recall ever seeing it
> being used by anyone else...
>
> (it sure doesn't work for the use cases I thought of when
> first learning about the API...)
-1.
I use it in real-life applications to wrap binary data.
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