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Author	pitrou
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, giampaolo.rodola, gpolo, pitrou
Date	2008-07-05.18:35:47
SpamBayes Score	0.012072028
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Message-id	<1215282949.16.0.548133345407.issue3139@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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If I try to follow the chain the consequences: - all PyArg_ParseTuple("s#") calls that release the GIL afterwards should be re-written to use another API (which one I don't know exactly, but hopefully the appropriate functions are already provided by the buffer API); this applies to third-party extension modules as well - consequently, forward compatibility is broken in an important way (but it would probably be ok for py3k) - perhaps the bytearray type should not have been backported to 2.6, or perhaps it should carry a big warning in the documentation

If I try to follow the chain the consequences:
 - all PyArg_ParseTuple("s#") calls that release the GIL afterwards
should be re-written to use another API (which one I don't know exactly,
but hopefully the appropriate functions are already provided by the
buffer API); this applies to third-party extension modules as well
 - consequently, forward compatibility is broken in an important way
(but it would probably be ok for py3k)
 - perhaps the bytearray type should not have been backported to 2.6, or
perhaps it should carry a big warning in the documentation

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-07-05 18:35:49	pitrou	set	spambayes_score: 0.012072 -> 0.012072028 recipients: + pitrou, amaury.forgeotdarc, giampaolo.rodola, gpolo
2008-07-05 18:35:49	pitrou	set	spambayes_score: 0.012072 -> 0.012072 messageid: <1215282949.16.0.548133345407.issue3139@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-07-05 18:35:48	pitrou	link	issue3139 messages
2008-07-05 18:35:47	pitrou	create