Python complaints

[Kevin]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:27:21 -0500 (EST), "Fred L. Drake, Jr."
<fdrake at acm.org> wrote:

>> If Python is a typed language, shouldn't we be able to determine 
> > what types are allowed as arguments and returned from functions 
> > without experimentation (and reverse engineering from the source code)?
>
>  As someone else pointed out using the buffer object as an example,
>this doesn't always make sense. 

Umm... could someone point me toward some documentation on this
elusive object? It sounds useful, if I can ever find it.

-Kevin