Guido van Rossum wrote: >>I was wondering whether this is an oversight or intended. Buffer >>objects can certainly be compared to strings on a byte-by-byte >>basis, so the compare result looks like a (long standing) >>bug to me. > > > I'd consider it a feature, designed to convey the subliminal message > "the buffer type should be deprecated". :-) Fine, but what alternative is there which meets the following requirements: * signals "this data is binary data" * compares just fine to strings * gets accepted by all APIs which use the buffer interface to access the data * has a C API which can be used in extensions * is available in Python 2.1.x and up (other than rolling my own mxBinary type...) What I'd basically need is a type which simply wraps up any string data, plays nice with 8-bit strings and signals the binary nature of the content. -- 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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