[Python-Dev] Fw: Behavior of buffer()

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I'm a little surprised.  Raymond Hettinger checked in a change that
> makes all slices of buffer objects return strings.  His comments on SF
> bug 546434 say that only one person replied and that they agreed
> returning strings was the better solution.  But that's not how I read
> the only response to his query that I see in python-dev, from Scott
> Gilbert:

Interesting. I must have skipped that message.

IMHO, all slices of buffer object should return buffer objects,
but since all Python releases return strings, I guess this is too
late to change.

Note that the only case where a buffer object
is returned in Python 2.x (x < 3) is if you write
buffer()[:], i.e. you want a copy of the buffer object.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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