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

Hrvoje Niksic hrvoje.niksic at avl.com
Fri Sep 3 09:51:11 CEST 2010

On 09/02/2010 10:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Then it came to me then perhaps it would be too automatic. So I'm currently floating between: - add implicit buffer protocol support to BytesIO objects - add explicit buffer protocol support through the call of a getbuffer() method, which would return a small intermediate object supporting the buffer protocol on behalf of the original BytesIO object

What do you think would be better?

getbuffer() sounds better. Accessing buffer contents is a nice feature, but one shouldn't be able to do it by accident.

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