I'm currently merging changes from trunk to 3.0. One unit test is failing:

test test_ctypes failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Lib/ctypes/test/test_frombuffer.py", line 67, in
test_from_buffer_copy
    x = (c_char * 16).from_buffer_copy("a" * 16)
TypeError: expected an object with a buffer interface

Thanks for your efforts, Christian.
This test needs an object which implements the readonly buffer interface.

Unfortunately the bytes object that I would like to use is broken:
http://bugs.python.org/issue2538

Ping

Thomas, the bytes object is not broken anymore with respect to the
buffer API, but it depends which buffer API you are talking about :-) I
hope it is the new, 3.0 one.

The test has already been fixed and reenabled in rev 65849.