[Python-Dev] Crazy idea for str.join

[Fredrik Lundh]

Josiah Carlson wrote:

> At least for the examples of buffers that I've seen, using the buffer
> interface for objects that support it is equivalent to automatically
> applying str() to them.  This is, strictly speaking, an optimization.

    >>> a = array.array("i", [1, 2, 3])
    >>> str(a)
    "array('i', [1, 2, 3])"
    >>> str(buffer(a))
    '\x01\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00'

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