Guido van Rossum wrote: > I'm a little surprised. Raymond Hettinger checked in a change that > makes all slices of buffer objects return strings. His comments on SF > bug 546434 say that only one person replied and that they agreed > returning strings was the better solution. But that's not how I read > the only response to his query that I see in python-dev, from Scott > Gilbert: Interesting. I must have skipped that message. IMHO, all slices of buffer object should return buffer objects, but since all Python releases return strings, I guess this is too late to change. Note that the only case where a buffer object is returned in Python 2.x (x < 3) is if you write buffer()[:], i.e. you want a copy of the buffer object. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH _______________________________________________________________________ eGenix.com -- Makers of the Python mx Extensions: mxDateTime,mxODBC,... Python Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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