On Feb 2, 12:12 am, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > My recommendation would be to not use recv_into in 2.x, but only in 3.x.
> I don't think that's the full solution. The array module should also > implement the new buffer API, so that it would also fail with the old > recv_into. Okay. But recv_into was added in 2.5 and the test case in 2.6's test_socket.py clearly allows an array there: def testRecvInto(self): buf = array.array('c', ' '*1024) nbytes = self.cli_conn.recv_into(buf) self.assertEqual(nbytes, len(MSG)) msg = buf.tostring()[:len(MSG)] self.assertEqual(msg, MSG) Checking koders and Google Code search engines, I found one project which used recv_into, with the filename bmpreceiver.py . It uses a array.array("B", [0] * length) . Clearly it was added to work with an array, and it's being used with an array. Why shouldn't people use it with Python 2.x? Andrew da...@dalkescientific.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list