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

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 24 October 2005 7:39 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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!

The patch is now on SF, #1337876.

Phil