Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: It looks to me that the support of bytes-like objects besides bytes and bytearray was added accidentally, as a side effect of supporting Unicode. Note, that this support had a bug until issue24802, thus correct support of other bytes-like objects exists less than a year. The option of deprecating other bytes-like objects support looks reasonable to me. Especially in the light of deprecating bytearray paths support (issue26800).
On other side, the need of copying a buffer can be considered as implementation detail, since low-level int parsing functions require NUL-terminated C strings. We can add alternative low-level functions that work with not-NUL-terminated strings. This needs more work. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27572> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
