[Python-Dev] Re: adding a bytes sequence type to Python (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 03:53:47 CEST 2004

array.array is the only type in the core that's a read buffer but not a character buffer, and I can't find any semantic differences between read and character buffers. If someone can explain the differences or confirm that there aren't any, I'll make this work. The easiest thing to do would be to make array support the character buffer API (but maybe only for [cbBu] types?).

Ah, that makes sense. And no please, keep it that way. It's compatible with the idea that bytes arrays should be read from / written to binary files.

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