[Python-Dev] Removing memoryview object patch from Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Dec 13 13:19:11 EST 2016

On 14 December 2016 at 01:26, Sesha Narayanan Subbiah <sesha.subbiah at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello

I have some implementation that currently uses python 2.6.4, which I m trying to upgrade to Python 2.7.6. After upgrade, I get the following error: "expected string or Unicode object, memoryview found" On checking further, I could find that memory view object has been back ported to python 2.7 using this patch: https://bugs.python.org/issue2396 I would like to know if it is safe to revert this patch alone from Python 2.7.6, or do we know if there are any other dependencies?

I'm not sure - if you're going to run with old, custom, builds of Python, you're probably best served by testing comprehensively for this yourself.

That said, I have to presume that the error you're getting is from some code that should be changed anyway, and will need to be changed when you move to Python 3. Please remember that Python 2.7.6 was released in 2013 - there have been many security issues since then, including some of the most egregious SSL issues ever, which should prompt you to run the latest 2.7 branch (if you're unable to migrate straight to 3.x.

-Rob

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