[Image-SIG] Proper application of the buffer interface

M.-A. Lemburg mal at lemburg.com
Fri Aug 6 05:16:46 EDT 1999


Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 
> David Ascher writes:
>  > Would it also make sense to make struct.pack() return a buffer object
>  > instead of a string?
> 
>   Sounds like it to me.  If Guido agrees, I can make the changes.

Wait... what's so bad about buffer(struct.pack()) ? Strings already
know the buffer interface, so this works just fine already.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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