[Python-Dev] Assertion in _PyManagedBuffer_FromObject() (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Fri Mar 2 15:00:53 CET 2012

Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:

> Careful. There are tons of code out there that use the buffer interface, > and the "obj" field has been the way to handle the buffer release ever > since the interface actually worked (somewhere around the release of Py3.0, > IIRC). > > Personally, I never read the documentation above (which was written way > after the design and implementation of the buffer interface).

The documentation has been largely re-written for 3.3.

But even for 3.0 it's not obvious to me why 'obj' should refer to anything but the exporter:

http://docs.python.org/release/3.0/c-api/typeobj.html

"obj is the object to export ..."

Stefan Krah

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