Nick's comment from #10181:

"It occurs to me that one thing that *could* be backported to early versions are some of the documentation improvements on how to correctly handle the lifecycle of fields in Py_buffer. That gets messy though because memoryview doesn't behave nicely in those versions, so we'd be violating our own guidelines.

Perhaps the relevant sections should be updated with a reference saying that the semantics have been cleaned up in 3.3, and if in doubt, try to follow the 3.3 documentation?"

Stefan, I just want to point out this issue, if you are touching 2.7:
http://bugs.python.org/issue10538
Do you think it merits being fixed?

Kristj??n Valur J??nsson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Stefan, I just want to point out this issue, if you are touching 2.7:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue10538
> Do you think it merits being fixed?

I think so. A patch would be appreciated, since the issue touches the
old buffer interface (which I haven't looked at in detail at all).

This is actually a lot of work, I don't think I'll have time for it.

Please just reopen if you think there's a chance that someone will take the task.