[Python-Dev] State of PEP-3118 (memoryview part)

Thu Mar 1 02:10:12 CET 2012

On 2/29/2012 2:34 PM, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Greg Ewing<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>>> Options 2) and 3) would ideally entail one backwards incompatible
>>> bugfix: In 2.7 and 3.2 assignment to a memoryview with format 'B'
>>> rejects integers but accepts byte objects, but according to the
>>> struct syntax mandated by the PEP it should be the other way round.
>>>> Maybe a compromise could be made to accept both in the
>> backport? That would avoid breaking old code while allowing
>> code that does the right thing to work.

This *almost* sounds like a feature addition.
>> This could definitely be done. But backporting is beginning to look unlikely,
> since we currently have three +1 for "too complex to backport".
>>> I'm not strongly in favor of backporting myself. The main reason for me
> would be to prevent having additional 2->3 or 3->2 porting obstacles.
>>> Stefan Krah
>>>>>
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Terry Jan Reedy