STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > There's no way for a buffer compatible object to tell the > arg parser that it is storing text data.
I think that the buffer protocol targets byte strings/arrays, and that unicode type should be enough. If applications have to exchange text data, they use utf8, which is a byte string. I don't see the use case. Open a discussion on python-dev if you would like to continue the discussion because this issue is closed. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8925> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
