STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: "w#" is not only useless but also not used in py3k source code. "w" is also not used. Only "w*" is used by fnctl and socket modules.
The problem with w# is that the caller cannot "release" the buffer and so we cannot lock the buffer. I don't know exactly what happens if you get a pointer to a bytearray, release the GIL and then use it, whereas another thread modifies and/or destroys the bytearray object. (I suppose that something bad will happen, like a segfault) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8850> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
