[Python-Dev] State of PEP-3118 (memoryview part) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Feb 26 22:23:53 CET 2012


Stefan Krah wrote:

Options 2) and 3) would ideally entail one backwards incompatible bugfix: In 2.7 and 3.2 assignment to a memoryview with format 'B' rejects integers but accepts byte objects, but according to the struct syntax mandated by the PEP it should be the other way round.

Maybe a compromise could be made to accept both in the backport? That would avoid breaking old code while allowing code that does the right thing to work.

-- Greg



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