[Python-Dev] Buffer protocol for io.BytesIO? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 13:16:13 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:44:01 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: That's an interesting idea. I was planning to return a memoryview object (in order to hide the intermediate object, and make it really minimal), so perhaps the context protocol should be enabled on memoryviews?

(enter would be a no-op, and exit would release the internal buffer and render it invalid, a bit like closing a file)

Yep, sounds good (with "no-op" in this case meaning "just return self").

Cheers, Nick.

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