[Python-Dev] Inconsistent Use of Buffer Interface in stringobject.c

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/24/05, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > A concern I'd have with fixing this is that Unicode objects also
> > support the buffer API. In any situation where either str or unicode
> > is accepted I'd be reluctant to guess whether a buffer object was
> > meant to be str-like or Unicode-like. I think this covers all the
> > cases you mention here.
>
> This situation is a little better than that: the buffer
> interface has a slot called getcharbuffer which is what
> the string methods use in case they find that a string
> argument is not of type str or unicode.

I stand corrected!

> As first step, I'd suggest to implement the gatcharbuffer
> slot. That will already go a long way.

Phil, if anything still doesn't work after doing what Marc-Andre says,
those would be good candidates for fixes!

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