[Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 tasks

Sat Mar 22 22:09:05 CET 2008

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
>> When the new buffer protocol is available in 2.6 we can start back
>> porting bytesarray and the new IO framework.
>> Are these really so closely tied that they have to wait before they
> can be backported?

I've started with the backport of the bytearray type in a new branch
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/trunk-bytearray
Any help is appreciated. I already solved most issues.
Open tasks:
 * fix bytearray.extend()
 * add PyString support to bytearray.fromhex
 * Add old style char buffer interface to bytearray (for codecs)
 * Add old style read write buffer interface to bytearray (for
file.readinto)
 * Fix pickle and copy support for bytearray
Christian