[Python-Dev] Why does _pyio.*.readinto have to work with 'b' arrays? (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Sun Jun 15 11:31:43 CEST 2014


Le 15 juin 2014 02:42, "Benjamin Peterson" <benjamin at python.org> a écrit :

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014, at 15:39, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > It seems to me that a much cleaner solution would be to simply declare > pyio's readinto to only work with bytearrays, and to explicitly raise a > (more helpful) TypeError if anything else is passed in.

That seems reasonable. I don't think pyio's behavior is terribly important compared to the C io module.

Which types are accepted by the readinto() method of the C io module? If the C module only accepts bytearray, the array hack must be removed from _pyio.

The _pyio module is mostly used for testing purpose, it's much slower. I hope that nobody uses it in production, the module is private (underscore prefix). So it's fine to break backward compatibilty to have the same behaviour then the C module.

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