[Python-Dev] The buffer() function (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Jul 13 19:20:53 CEST 2006


Thomas Heller wrote:

Naturally I tried to call base64.encodestring(buffer(ctypesinstance)) and it worked, so that was my answer.

does ctypesinstance implement the buffer API ? if it does, is the buffer() call even necessary ? Yes, in both cases.

are you sure? does it implement the bf_getreadbuffer slot? afaik, afaicr, and from what I can tell by looking briefly at the sources, the binascii.b2a_base64 function uses the the s# marker, and that argument type accepts strings and read only buffers, right away. no extra crud should be necessary.



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