[Python-Dev] What to do for bytes in 2.6? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jan 18 15:56:26 CET 2008

On Jan 17, 2008 11:24 PM, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:

Is the bytes type required for PEP3118 'Revising the buffer protocol'?

I don't think so. I would like to see this PEP backported (but keep the old 'buffer' of course for b/w compatibility). Whenever this PEP talks about bytes we can just use str/PyString in the backport.

I just started to work on implementing this PEP for ctypes, in the hope that these changes can be merged into trunk.

Remember that the trunk ought to remain backwards compatible with 2.5 -- 2.6 should not break code that worked under 2.5, since we want as many users as possible to feel comfortable with upgrading to 2.6.

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