[Python-Dev] pre-PEP: The Safe Buffer Interface

[Thomas Heller]

> > Could also just have one acquire function that indicates whether it
> > is read-write or read-only via a return parameter.
> 
> That loses the (weak) symmetry with the existing API.
> 

There's nothing a client expecting a read/write pointer could
do with a read only pointer IMO.

> > Is write-only ever useful?
> 
> No, write implies read.

Should it be named getfixedreadwritebuffer then?

Thomas