Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: One way to check that it's bytes-compatible is to take a memoryview of it:
>>> memoryview(b"abc") <memory at 0x1cf5120> >>> memoryview(bytearray(b"abc")) <memory at 0x1cf55a0> >>> memoryview(array.array('b', b"abc")) <memory at 0x1cf52a0> >>> memoryview([b"abc"]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: cannot make memory view because object does not have the buffer interface >>> memoryview("abc") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: cannot make memory view because object does not have the buffer interface ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3243> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com