recv_into(bytearray) complains about a "pinned buffer"

[Andrew Dalke]

On Feb 2, 12:12 am, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> My recommendation would be to not use recv_into in 2.x, but only in 3.x.

> I don't think that's the full solution. The array module should also
> implement the new buffer API, so that it would also fail with the old
> recv_into.

Okay. But recv_into was added in 2.5 and the test case in
2.6's test_socket.py clearly allows an array there:


    def testRecvInto(self):
        buf = array.array('c', ' '*1024)
        nbytes = self.cli_conn.recv_into(buf)
        self.assertEqual(nbytes, len(MSG))
        msg = buf.tostring()[:len(MSG)]
        self.assertEqual(msg, MSG)

Checking koders and Google Code search engines, I found one project
which used recv_into, with the filename bmpreceiver.py . It
uses a array.array("B", [0] * length) .

Clearly it was added to work with an array, and it's
being used with an array. Why shouldn't people use it
with Python 2.x?

                Andrew
                dalke at dalkescientific.com