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Author	brett.cannon
Recipients	brett.cannon, gvanrossum
Date	2008-08-05.22:52:41
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> added the comment: > > Definitely don't bring buffer() back in 3.0! It needs to die. > > If 2to3 can do this reasonably well, let's do that. > There is already a fixer to go from buffer() to memoryview(), but I don't know how compatible the APIs are. That might still require a warning.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Guido van Rossum
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> added the comment:
>
> Definitely don't bring buffer() back in 3.0!  It needs to die.
>
> If 2to3 can do this reasonably well, let's do that.
>

There is already a fixer to go from buffer() to memoryview(), but I
don't know how compatible the APIs are. That might still require a
warning.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-08-05 22:52:44	brett.cannon	set	recipients: + brett.cannon, gvanrossum
2008-08-05 22:52:42	brett.cannon	link	issue3506 messages
2008-08-05 22:52:41	brett.cannon	create