[Python-Dev] buffer('abc') == 'abc' is False ?! (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:40:25 -0400

The above just was a hint not to deprecate the buffer object until we've come up with a decent replacement that's easy to adapt in existing code.

So, apart from the Python 2.1 requirement, subclassing str does the trick, right?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)