[Python-Dev] PEP 3118: Extended buffer protocol (new version)

[Greg Ewing]

Travis Oliphant wrote:
> you would like to make the original memory 
> read-only until you are done with the algorithm and have copied the data 
> back into memory.

Okay, I see what you mean now.

Maybe this should be called Py_BUF_LOCK_CONTENTS or
something to make the semantics clearer. Otherwise
it could mean either that *you* don't intend to
write to it, or that you require nobody ever to
write to it.

--
Greg