Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Well, the terminology in these docs is not very precise and helpful. There are two things here: - the buffer /struct/ a.k.a Py_buffer, which can only be used from C code and using the dedicated "new buffer API" - the memoryview, which is a Python object (a PyObject *) wrapping a buffer struct; as a PyObject *, it can be used everywhere a regular Python object is expected (whether in C or in Python)
Then, as you point out, there's a third thing: the old "buffer" object from Python 2.x; but it should not be mentioned at all in the 3.x docs, since it's completely gone. Endly... to be honest, I don't understand what the sentence you've quoted is supposed to mean :-(, so I don't know how to correct it. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6659> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
