Message107283
STINNER Victor wrote:
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> New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>:
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> http://docs.python.org/py3k/c-api/arg.html is unclear about what is a "string".
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> Attached patch:
> - Use directly bytes, bytearray and str types
> - Replace "default encoding" by "``'utf-8'`` encoding"
> - Add bytes and/or bytearray to "... buffer compatible object" because it's not easy to understand what is a buffer compatible object, especially because there are different kind of buffer objects: read-only, read-write, pinned, etc.
> - Fix reST syntax ("..note ::")
> - Fix "es", "es#", "et" and "et#" formats: they doesn't accept "character buffer compatible object" (can someone double check that?)
The character buffer concept is (unfortunately) gone in Python3.
There's no way for a buffer compatible object to tell the
arg parser that it is storing text data. Perhaps we can add something
like that back via the Py_buffer flags for getting buffers. |
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2010-06-07 21:43:54 | lemburg | set | recipients:
+ lemburg, georg.brandl, vstinner, eric.araujo, docs@python |
2010-06-07 21:43:42 | lemburg | link | issue8925 messages |
2010-06-07 21:43:41 | lemburg | create | |
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