[Python-Dev] Why does _pyio.*.readinto have to work with 'b' arrays?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 June 2014 10:41, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014, at 15:39, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> It seems to me that a much cleaner solution would be to simply declare
>> _pyio's readinto to only work with bytearrays, and to explicitly raise a
>> (more helpful) TypeError if anything else is passed in.
>
> That seems reasonable. I don't think _pyio's behavior is terribly
> important compared to the C _io module.

_pyio was written before the various memoryview fixes that were
implemented in Python 3.3 - it seems to me it would make more sense to
use memoryview to correctly handle arbitrary buffer exporters (we
implemented similar fixes for the base64 module in 3.4).

Cheers,
Nick.

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