[Python-Dev] Deprecate the buffer object?

[Greg Ewing]

Neil Schemenauer <nas-python at python.ca>:

> I don't think the buffer hash method can depend on the data being
> pointed to.  There is nothing in the buffer interface that tells
> you if the data is immutable.  The hash method could return the id
> of the buffer object but I'm not sure how useful that would be.

How about just having it call the hash method of the base
object? If the base object is hashable, this will do something
reasonable, and if not, it will fail in the expected way.

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