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Author pitrou
Recipients Drekin, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, ncoghlan, pitrou, steve.dower, tshepang, vstinner
Date 2014-08-29.23:00:25
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> Why does PyOS_Readline return *char, rather than Python string object?

For historical reasons and now for compatibility: we can't change the hook's signature without breaking obvious applications, obviously.
If necessary, we could add a new hook that would take precedence over the old one if defined. Feel free to post a patch for that.
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2014-08-29 23:00:25pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, ncoghlan, vstinner, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, tshepang, Drekin, steve.dower
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