[Python-3000] bytes C API in 2.6 for easy transition to 3.0? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Sep 5 17:08:02 CEST 2007


On 9/4/07, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

On 9/4/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote: > According to PEP 358, "bytes" will be in both 2.6 and 3.0. It would > be nice if the C API for "bytes" existed in the trunk, so that it > could be used for new code that will port more easily to 3.0 . I assume this includes the new buffer api since we really seem to want C API users to use that rather than bytes objects directly?

Well, in a pinch the old buffer API would work (the 3.0 bytes object used that until recently :-) but Travis told me he is planning to backport PEP 3118 to 2.6, so eventually that will happen, yes.

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